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>In article <1992Nov5.104412.2241@cc.ic.ac.uk>, mjh@cc.ic.ac.uk (Martyn at Rimmer) writes:
>> would play the audio or display a image. Certain body parts (eg
>> richtext or gifs?) could be actually show in xmh itself by usings
>> a different widget or something. A grander solution might be to
>> invent a multi-media widget.

I agree to this and actually trying to throw together a widget set
from various existing software. I am approaching the problem from
bottom up and not making a single "multi-media widget". Instead, I am
trying to build a widget for each content type. So far I have just
been able to get prototype of Raster Image widget and working on
multifont ISO2022 text widget now (I approach the problem from ODA
direction, so I have not yet tackled any tagged text contents, but as
ISO202 + ANSI control sequences for effects are implemented, it
wouldn't be a big job to convert rich text into such byte stream and
feed to widget). The raster widget currently takes GIF, JPEG/JFIF and
TIFF (using Sam Leflers tifflib v3.1 and jpegsrc.v3 libraries).

I am hoping to get my hands on some MPEG source code that runs on Unix
(actually Sun IPX) so that I could mold into video widget. Actually,
would be interested in hearing ideas how such could be built, as there
might be multiple instances of such widget running simultaneously.

No plans yet how to make widgets for Postscript and CGM. Maybe, if the
author of Ghostscript package turned a widget version out of it?

While back I posted a notice about this into comp.window.x under title
new data presentation widget set (Xew). It is still uncertion what the
status of this work is, because I am doing it on EuroBridge (RACE
2008) project.
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Markku Savela (savela@tel.vtt.fi), Technical Research Centre of Finland
Telecommunications Laboratory, Otakaari 7 B, SF-02150 ESPOO, Finland