Re: Gui tool similar to "Motif Tools"

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From: Phil Hunt
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 00:00

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In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.980923131918.19505B-100000@wks9.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de>
           thayer@mpivision.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de "Michael Thayer" writes:
> 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? 

What's Tix?

My understanding of Tcl is that it is not a particularly good 
language for manipulating data structures and algorithms (I've not
actually used it, but it looks more like sh or csh than a real
programming langauge to me).


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From: philh@vision25.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
Subject: Re: Gui tool similar to "Motif Tools"
Date: 1998/09/23
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