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Re: Portable GUI Libs...

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From: Christopher R. Bailey
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 08:02
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The portable gui lib we are using is called XVT Portability Toolkit by XVT.
We are using it to meet our senior project requirements (established by the
company we are working for) of supporting MS-DOS (MS-Windows), UNIX (X windows,
Motif/DEC/SGI/AIX), and Mac.  In other words our product has to run on and 
look the same in layout (although it will look like the native environment) on
all platforms.  

The code is completely (99%) portable.  The only thing that is platform
specific is things like icons and bitmaps, which is unavoidable.  However, we
write all our code on MS Windows workstations, and just go over to a UNIX box
and type make (our own makefile), and boom it compiles no problem!  

The only drawback I've seen so far is that you can't have pull-right or
cascading menus.  This is because these aren't available on a Mac, sort of
like enforced portability.  

It seems to have most things people want, general drawing functions, some
cool windows (eg note windows, etc), and we are using it with C++.  You can
use it with C or C++, they provide a sort of template I guess for C++ work.

XVT Software
Box 18750
Boulder, CO 80308
(303) 443-4223	or (303) 443-0969 (Fax)

Current version is 3.0, supported on MS Windows (Borland, MS, Zortech
compilers), Macintosh, DEC, SUN, IBM, SGI, and maybe more UNIX boxes.

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Subject: Re: Portable GUI Libs...
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