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Article #489Re: ** Toward a Portable OO GUI Library **
From: Jim Carden
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 19:09
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 19:09
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In article <EMERY.93Feb10103958@goldfinger.mitre.org> emery@goldfinger.mitre.org (David Emery) writes: >The model (even if practice doesn't live up to it) for IEEE and other >formal standards is to codify existing practice. I don't think >there's enough existing practice out there to standardize on yet. >There are some commercial products (e.g. XVT, Galaxy, and Galaxy is >supposed to be the most 00-like) but in the absence of reasonable >experience with existing practice, I believe formal standardization to >be premature. There are so many questions to ask before standardizing anything. First and foremost is what do you want to standardize? For example XVT provides portability of certain widgets (menus, buttons, lists boxes). Galaxy on the other hand defines a wider range of portable functionality: widgets, but also drawing (in this case display postscript), a 2.5D object oriented graphics facility, run-time and persistent B-Trees, file I/O, exception handling, and on and on. Do you want to standardize an interface to a certain set of widgets or do you want to standardize everything that Galaxy covers? And why? -- Posted for patl@goldfish.mitron.tek.com
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