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I just have accidentally come across the rather old posting (I was away
from my mail for some time):

>From: mprevost@gel.ulaval.ca (Michel Prevost)
>Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.lang.c++,comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.x
>Subject: [NEWS] Re: MS-Window to X-Window
>Date: 30 Jul 1995 19:34:21 GMT
>
>In article <3vci5r$odc@ratree.psu.ac.th>, lsomchai@ratree.psu.ac.th (Somchai LIMSIRORATANA) writes:
>> Hi all,
>>       I am programming on MS-Window with Borland C++ 4.5.
>>       In my department have many Sun workstation and Lynux run on X-Window.
>>       So, I want convert my program on MS-Window to X-Window.
>>       Please advice me, how to do this? Have any converter application?
>>       or any book?
>> Thanks.
[...]
>
>MS-Windows is radically different of X-Window.
>
>If you want to program in X-Window, you should read the following:
>        X-Window programming manual (X-Window serie from O'Reilly, volume 1)
>        X-Window reference manual   ( "  "    "       "      "     volume 2)
>These two represent about 2,000 pages.
>But you won't have predefined functions for buttons, etc. because Xlib only provided graphics primitives (lines,
>circles, etc). You now have two choices: (1) Writing your own functions, (2) Using a toolkit such as XView.
>The second one is the simplest. You could read XView Programming Manual (same serie as above, volume 7) and
>the XView Reference manual. There's another toolkit, Motif. The volume from the same serie is Motif Toolkit
>programming Manual.
>
>But this is a big job to learn X-Window. I am myself programming in the X-Window environment since 2 years and
>I don't know the half of what I should know.

I would not say that MS-Win is radically different from X-Win. In fact,
they are amazingly isomorphic (much more so than any two event-driven
graphical windowing systems have a right to be at random). This fact is
taken advantage of by the various cross-platform GUI toolkits which provide
(hopefully) single source-level interface (usually in a form of the C++
class library) implemented on each of the platforms. Good libraries can
even implement some functionality not directly supported by the specific
platform.

Wade Guthrie (wade@nb.rockwell.com) maintains the 'Portable GUI Development
Kits' FAQ which can be found at
            ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.windows.misc/
(file names are somewhat fancy so I do not quote them here. Total size is
some 90 odd KB). You can find the tables and some useful discussion there.

           Hope this helps                   Gin


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