nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) (11/27/90)
> So, to answer your questin, yes, XVT does what it claims to do, and if > you need that, then you have to use XVT, since they don't have any > competition at all (others talk about releasing a product,but XVT > currently supports Motif, Macintosh, Windows, Presentation Manager, > OpenLook, and character interfaces). > Sorry to disagree with you, Kee, since I've gotten lots of helpful > hints from you before, but in this case I think you're flat wrong. It wouldn't be the first time. :-) I suspect that this may be a per-application issue, as well as a case of where if I didn't have the existing tools then I would find some other way to do things. A couple questions... Is the OpenLook interface released? Have you seen/used it? Is there anyway to introduce new manager widgets? E.g. a panedWindow? Does keyboard traversal work? How about acclerators for the menubar items? Does it support Motif's option menus? How about popops? Is there anyway to do context sensitive popups (whose content changes depending on which widget you press the mouse button over)? Have they addressed the issue of having separate menubars on different windows? Can you cache windows (i.e. map/unmap so they come up fast)? Other than the first item, these are all things that I need for my application. I could probably work around the manager problem by using hard-wired sizes everywhere, but that would totally screw up my internationalization plans. The other stuff would be much hard to do without. XVT claims that their toolkit is not least-common-denominator, and they are correct - it isn't. A more accurate phrase would be useful-common- denominator. They've taken a set of things that they think are the basic items required, and they've patched over those places where a particular toolkit doesn't deal with a particular thing. But they by no means provide all the richness of any one toolkit. If you aren't pushing the envelope then maybe that's okay. -kee