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Hallo Kuno!

Hier ist der versprochene Test-Artikel fuer scomg - Ich hoffe, dass
er ankommt. Damit das ganze nicht zu kurz wird, und wieder im Batch bei
unido haengenbleibt, haenge ich noch ein bisschen was dran...

mfg, hd

From unido!mcsun!sunic!uupsi!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eng.sun.COM!tomj Fri Jan 26 15:58:16 MET 1990
Article 12617 of comp.windows.x:
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>From: tomj@eng.sun.COM (Tom Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: XView Toolkit Source Update to R4
Message-ID: <9001240114.AA05148@snowking.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 24 Jan 90 01:14:37 GMT
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Posted: Wed Jan 24 02:14:37 1990

Sun Microsystems is proud to announce the availability of the first
patch update to XView toolkit source that ships with release 4 of the
X Window System.  This patch is intended to support building shared
libraries, provide files that were accidently left out the release
(some include files & dbxtool source) and fixes problems when building
on a DECstation 3100.  Additionally, we've included fixes for
some bugs that have been reported in the last few weeks.  Details of
the update are towards the end of this message.

The XView source donation, for those who may not already know, includes
the complete source for the XView toolkit, the OLWM window manager,
a number sample XView applications, and a collection of commercial-quality
Lucida bitmap fonts from Bigelow & Holmes.

XView is an X toolkit based on the OPEN LOOK (tm) Graphical User
Interface.  XView's application programmer's interface (API) is very
similar to the API of the SunView toolkit; in practice, most SunView
applications can be converted to XView in a few days, although some
will take longer.  Since there are more than 2000 SunView applications,
we expect that releasing XView will immediately create a large base of
X11 applications.  To futher assist in converting SunView applications,
the R4 donation includes improved automated conversion tools and
documentation.

OLWM is an ICCCM-compliant window manager, also based on the OPEN LOOK
GUI.  OLWM is a "stand-alone" window manager, not dependent on any
toolkit code.  We hope that OLWM will become the standard example of
an ICCCM-compliant window manager in X11 R4.  Additionally, OLWM 
provides both 2D and 3D-look OPEN LOOK graphical interfaces through
the usage of a new OPEN LOOK graphics library (OLGX).  OLGX is
written to the Xlib interface and does not use any toolkit.

Also available in the R4 donation is the source to four useful
applications and many (~70) new simple example programs.  The four
XView applications are clock, textedit, dbxtool, and cmdtool/shelltool
(a terminal emulator).  In addition, we are including a script that
helps convert SunView programs to XView by flagging the application
code that needs to be changed and another tool which helps convert
SunView ".defaults" files into ".Xdefaults" resource files.

The Bigelow & Holmes Lucida bitmap fonts are a collection of different
type styles and point sizes in the Lucida typeface.  In addition, XView
uses "glyph fonts" to accelerate the painting of some OPEN LOOK GUI
graphical elements, and these fonts are also being made available.
These glyph fonts are used extensively by OLGX to provide high
performance when rendering 2D and 3D-look OPEN LOOK graphics.  However,
only OLWM will be able to provide the 3D-look in this update. 
Note that these glyph fonts *MUST* be added to your X11 R3 server in
order to run XView applications.  These fonts are standard with all
R4 servers.

With licensed source products from Sun, source is usually not released
until several months after a binary version of the product has
shipped.  The extra time is used to "clean up" the source for external
consumption.  In contrast, we are releasing XView and OLWM now, before
the binary version of XView (XView 1.0.1) has shipped.  We will
continue to fix bugs and portability problems as we find them, and
these changes will be made available periodically (this is just the
first).  This version of XView source lints more cleanly than the ALPHA
version, but still does not lint perfectly.  This problem is mostly due
to XView's extensive use of varargs.  

We are releasing this FCS version of the source at this time in order
to promote OPEN LOOK, to further accellerate the number of ports of
XView ready when X11 R4 ships, and to encourage the notion that X
toolkit source should be free.  We will update this free source to
track changes that Sun makes in XView, including bug fixes, performance
improvements, and new features.  Sun has selected the MIT X11
distribution as our XView source distribution channel.  We currently
have plans to update again in the spring with more bug fixes, extensive
performance enhansements and a completed 3D-look OPEN LOOK GUI
(currently only OLWM provides 3D).  The update following that we'll be
donating the completed Kanji version of XView.

Sun has implemented XView on four architectures: Sun4, Sun3, Sun386i,
and DECstation 3100.  Additionally, XView has already been successfully
ported by others to MIPS M2000, IBM-PC/RT (AIX and BSD), IBM-PS/2 (AIX)
and HP (HP-UX).  Additionly, there are about a dozen ports under way by
other hardware vendors or third-party software vendors.  In some cases,
Sun is paying for the port and will own the rights to any code changes;
we will give these changes away.  In other cases, vendors will sell
XView on a particular hardware or OS base; obviously, their changes are
their added value.  We encourage both uses of this source donation.

If you discover bugs in XView or OLWM, or if you port them and discover
portability problems that you are willing to fix for the X community,
please send your bug reports to xviewbugs@sun.com (...!sun!xviewbugs).
We should have an automated archive server on-line pretty quickly to 
provide fast responses and easy access to other questions asked.
Bug reports with suggested fixes are obviously the best sort.  

Open discussion about XView or OLWM ("Anybody figure out how to... ?")
should occur on xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu (comp.windows.x).  

Documentation on XView, in PostScript source format, is included in the
XView tar file.  The two documents that are supplied are called

	"XView 1.0.1 Reference Manual: Converting SunView Applications"
	"Converting Your SunView Application's Pixwin/Pixrect Graphics
                     to XView and Xlib Graphics"

A pre-printed version of XView 1.0.1 Reference Manual may also be
ordered (at the cost of media and shipping) from Sun Microsystems by
ordering Part Number 800-2482-10.  The Pixwin/Pixrect conversion
document is a simiple ASCII text document and can be formatted and
printed easily.  In addition, a comprehensive programmer's reference
manual for XView is now available from O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. as
Volume Seven of their series of X Window System documentation.  Contact
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. directly to order the

	"XView Programming Manual"

	O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
	632 Petaluma Avenue
	Sebastopol, CA  95472
	(800)338-6887  [from within the USA]
	(707)829-0515
	FAX: (707)829-0104
	EMAIL: uunet!ora!xview

XView requires the use of an ICCCM-compliant window manager, such as
OLWM.  Further, XView requires full ICCCM support in Xlib. This will be
standard in X11 R4.  In order to run with an X11 R3 version of Xlib,
you must define the PRE_R4_ICCCM compile-time flag when you compile
XView.  If you are running a pre-R4 (not up-to-date) ICCCM-type window
manager (R3 twm for example), you should specify the following resource
entry "XView.ICCCMCompliant: False" in your environment (default is True).

To build XView, you will also want to have the X Window System source
available, though you can build with without the complete source.
XView requires standard utilities from the X Window System source tree,
such as imake, bdftosnf, and mkfontdir.

Please direct comments or questions about this source donation to
xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu (or comp.windows.x).

And thank you for your support.

	--Tom Jacobs       (tomj@sun.com    -OR-   ..!sun!tomj)