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Eng Heng Chiaw (hceng@SOLOMON.TECHNET.SG) and
Bill Poitras (bill@snoopy.stanford.edu) wrote:

> : c.	How would one make a decision between IV and Motif?
> 

Use the OPEN LOOK Intrinsics Toolkit ;-)

> 1) IV is a C++ toolkit, Motif has C binding as well as C++ bindings.
> 2) IV is probably more object oriented in nature.  Please, no flames, I
>    don't enough about Motif to say that its definite.

The various abstractions are more clearly identified in InterViews than in
the leading toolkits based on Xt intrinsics ... I don't mean the obvious visual
things like Buttons, Scrollbars, Canvasas ... I mean concepts like Requirements,
Extensions, Glyphs, Transformers, Tables, Lists, Events, Observables, ...

> 3) IV glyphs are lighter weight (uses less memory) than Motif widgets

I would like to see some numerical comparisons - when you get down to a
practical class like Button, maybe they're not that different??

> 4) IV has less documentation.

./iv/src/man contains lots of reasonably good documentation. See the
new refman.PS, in particular.

Much of the published Motif 'pop literature' is heavily padded with trivial
discussion and code examples ...
the InterViews Reference Manual is more concentrated, and I consider it
higher quality ...


> 5) Motif has more commercial implementations.  IV has a few, but pre-3.1.
> 6) Motif has no free implementations.

The OPEN LOOK Intrinsics Toolkit is free from royalty charges.


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.. Jim Thrasher

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