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Re: Programming in X Windows

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From: Douglas Clinton
Date: Wed, 30 May 1990 21:28
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In article <F#rlid2@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
> Does the FSF encourage people to program in X Windows using
> Interviews, or doesn't it matter which toolkit is used?  After all,
> aren't the other toolkits, Athena for example, free?  I guess
> compatibility, maintainability, and a few other abilities become an
> issue.  I don't want to learn N different widget sets and finding a
> bug in, or trying to upgrade a program written in one of those (N-k)
> other widget sets that a programmer doesn't know can be more work than
> is necessary.  Won't more get done in the long run if everyone sticks
> with a standard?

Well, InterViews is a C++ toolkit whilst Athena, Motif, etc. are C based
so I don't really see how they can be compared.

I know of only one other C++ based X toolkit and that is ET++ which is
also free. I would be interested to hear of any others that are
available.

Doug Clinton

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From: clint@ibmpcug.co.uk (Douglas Clinton)
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Subject: Re: Programming in X Windows
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Date: 30 May 90 21:28:24 GMT
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