🚀 go-pugleaf

Joseph H Allen wrote:
> I'm close to completing a new free-ware widget library for X.  This widget
> library looks similar to Motif to the user, but is vastly smaller and, I
> think, far simpler to program

> - Menus work as they do in Windows.  I.E., they are both the drag and let go
>   kind and the click on the item kind combined.  The code to implement them
>   is only 300 lines.  Lesstif requires 3000 lines and is broken (they don't
>   seem to understand how to make a grab stack).  Actually real Motif doesn't
>   even know how to do the grab stack properly: if you pull up a menu in
>   Linux netscape, and then click on the title bar of another window (this is
>   in fvwm), the menu gets dismissed, but the other window is not selected
>   (but is brought to the top).  Whatever Motiff library they're using
>   doesn't deliver the event properly.  I don't get it.  Motif has been
>   around for years and should do this properly.


I can only applaud free software development.

I have two points if you allow me :

Question : what is it that we should do to the grabbing in LessTif ? You
claim
	to understand something we don't; and we'd like to know what.

Remark : the combination between LessTif and lxb (freeware Motif GUI
builder)
	should provide for easy gui building as well.
	http://www.lesstif.org/
	http://www.umn.edu/nlhome/g257/parki005/lxb/lxb.html

	Danny
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