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Re: AVS and X and Motif

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From: trandu
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 20:56
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In article <1992Sep4.171952.16664@ctr.columbia.edu>, larryg@avs.com (Larry Gelberg) writes:
> 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
> 
> --
> === Larry Gelberg ============================ larryg@avs.com =======
>       Advanced Visual Systems Inc. (AVS Inc.)
>       300 Fifth Ave, Waltham, MA 02154
> ===== Tel: 617-890-4300 = Fax: 617-890-8287 =========================

hi,
is there an example and/or script that shows how to do MOTIF in AVS?
Thanks
huy
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