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In article <100ceh3@Unify.Com>, grp@Unify.com (Greg Pasquariello) writes:
> In article <5821@osc.COM>, george@osc.COM (George Baggott) writes:
>> 
>> I'm in the process of investigating products which provide a GUI development
>> API which is portable across Motif, MS Windows, Presentation Manager, Open 
>> Look,Macintosh, etc.  If anyone out there has any opinions or experience 
>> regarding the following products, I'm very interested in hearing your 
>> opinions...
>>	Galaxy (Visix Software Inc.)
>>	Open Interface (Neuron Data Inc.)
>> 	XVT (XVT Software Inc.)
>> 
> 
> [...]
> About 9 months ago I evaluated Open Interface, XVT (well, kind-of), and
> Galaxy, among other toolkits.  Galaxy won hands down.  If you would like
> specific information, I can provide it via e-mail.
> 
> If enough people care, I can post more specific information on the
> newsgroup
> 
  I think quite a few people face cross-platform development decisions, 
and am very much in favour of as much information on the net as possible.
It seems a very difficult decision to make: you tie your product to
a third party, probably for several years; problems will only surface
after the product has been purchased and time spent; new platforms
are arriving soon. 
  Byte just did an article (Byte, July 1992), in which they recommended
XVT, because it provided the widest range of platforms. They actually
claimed that it is currently the only choice for complete portability,
but Open Interface and Galaxy seem to qualify as well. I find the Unix
versions of XVT very expensive ($4400 according to Byte), especially
when you might have to support different architectures.
  Dr. Dobb's Journal is currently writing about this topic (DDJ, October 1992),
but the article on GUI toolkits hasn't appeared yet (I still have to receive 
the November issue, which is dedicated to UI's and tools).

Jurgen Doornik