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jaaksi@cc.tut.fi (Jaaksi Ari) writes:
: I saw at SIGGRAPH in Chicago an AVS -demo that interested  me a lot. 
: As far as I understood, in that demo program AVS was able to draw 
: inside a Motif X -window. So there was a normal Motif program that
: opened a X window. After that AVS was told to draw inside that window
: and an end user wouldn't even know he's using AVS. 

You're close! The Motif application is first encapsulated in an AVS
module. Then, AVS creates the window and hands the X window ID to the
MOTIF application which reparents the window into its own space.  The 
Motif widgets communicate to AVS via the CLI - you send a CLI command
(or a series of commands) based on the meaning of a Motif widget interaction.
Finally, you could start up AVS to be invisible (avs -nodisplay) but 
running a network containing the Motif-application module. 

This is only possible with AVS4 and the magic is the CLI command,
    panel -xwindow
which returns the X Window Id.(see the Developer's Guide - 5-48 - 5-50)

: If that was possible,
: I could program my user interface useing Motif. And instead of using
: some graphics libraries to draw 3D things I could use AVS networks.
: I'd have all the power of AVS with the flexibility of all other
: ways to create X applications!

Exactly!  While some people like the standard AVS (LUI) interface, other
programs have requirements for MOTIF, OPEN-LOOK, whatever, so we have
been working on these and other ways of interfacing AVS to other
applications.

larryg

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