Re: Gui tool similar to "Motif Tools"

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From: Michael Thayer
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 00:00

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On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Phil Hunt wrote:
> One thing that would be useful for Linux would be a RAD (Rapid
> Applications Development) tool.
[...]
> The way Xmt worked was that the programmer wrote the design of the
> window in an Xresource file for the application, in a very high level
> format. A tool like that takes more time to initially learn than
> drawing the UI straight on the screen, but once learnt is quick to use
> and flexible.
[...]
> Does anything like this currently exist for Linux? 

What about Tcl/Tk/Tix?  It is admittedly not so fast (although I think
that a real compiler is being worked upon, or has been written), but it is
very nice to programme, and interfaces to (in principle) any programming
language, as well as being usable in X, Windows and on the Mac.

Michael

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From: Michael Thayer <thayer@mpivision.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de>
Subject: Re: Gui tool similar to "Motif Tools"
Date: 1998/09/23
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