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Article #2346Re: Portable GUI Libs...
From: Christopher R. Bailey
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 08:02
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. -- Christopher R. Bailey |Internet: baileyc@dendrite.cs.colorado.edu University of Colorado at Boulder|CompuServe: 70403,1522 /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Ride Fast, Take Chances!
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools,comp.windows.ms.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!boulder!ucsu!ucsu.Colorado.EDU!baileyc From: baileyc@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Christopher R. Bailey) Subject: Re: Portable GUI Libs... Message-ID: <1993Jan26.080232.21648@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> Keywords: gui,portable,library Sender: news@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: ucsu.colorado.edu Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder References: <jbg.727653567@qualcom> <1993Jan22.134246.15143@crd.ge.com> <1993Jan25.231903.8720@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 08:02:32 GMT Lines: 34