Re: Wrapping Motif gunk up in InterViews 3.0

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From: Andy Deitsch
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 13:56

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> I am involved in building a GUI and we have a problem.  Our development
> language is C++, of course, and we have some "wrapper" libraries for Motif
> but they wrap it only at a pretty low level.  We like InterViews much
> better as a basis for continuing development, but there are a lot of pretty
> widgets working in raw C/Motif and we doubt we can reproduce them in IV in
> less than a couple of months, if ever.  Even then they may not have the 
> completely Motif-consistent look and feel we need. 

HP has a product called HP InterViews Plus.  According to the product
manager, end users will not know that your application wasn't developed
using true motif widgets.  From everything i've heard, it sounds like
a great product.

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Andy Deitsch                            email    : deitsch@crd.ge.com    
GE Corporate Research & Development     phone    : (518) 387-7207         
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