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Article #2171Re: Has anyone ported MS Windows code to X windows?
From: John Gossman
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1991 00:37
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1991 00:37
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In article <1991Apr17.185135.1050@beaver.cs.washington.edu> bnfb@june.cs.washington.edu (Bjorn Freeman-Benson) writes: >Some non-network connected friends of mine are interested in experiences >Bjorn N. Freeman-Benson The programming models are pretty different. If you are familiar with lots of GUIs and program with that experience in mind, it is relatively easy to port between them. If you are familiar with one GUI, and try to port to another, good luck. MS Windows code is usually based around a huge message receiving switch statement (the switch statement from hell). This does not port well to Motif. It works slightly better for OpenLook (using the SunView toolkit). Motif and OpenLook are certainly more than powerful enough to do anything (and more) a Windows program would want to, but the programming style is apt to be a bit different. // *************************************************************** // John Gossman SoftSource (206)676-0999 Phone WWU Math Dept. My employer stands behind all my opinions, except in public. // ************************************************************** //
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!uwm.edu!ogicse!unicorn!n8443916 From: n8443916@unicorn.cc.wwu.edu (John Gossman) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer,comp.windows.x.openlook,comp.windows.x.motif Subject: Re: Has anyone ported MS Windows code to X windows? Message-ID: <1991Apr18.003750.26085@unicorn.cc.wwu.edu> Date: 18 Apr 91 00:37:50 GMT References: <1991Apr17.185135.1050@beaver.cs.washington.edu> Organization: Western Washington University, Bellingham Lines: 20