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From: mat60@uts.amdahl.com (Mark Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Future of HP widget set....
Message-ID: <23Hk021X3aL101@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 1 Jul 89 05:24:52 GMT
References: <8906281433.AA00556@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> <811@dtscp1.UUCP>
Reply-To: mat60@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Mark Thomas)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation,  Sunnyvale, CA 94086
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In article <811@dtscp1.UUCP> joel@dtscp1.UUCP (Joel Rives) writes:
>In article <8906281433.AA00556@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> Damon.Lipparelli@MIRACLE.EDRC.CMU.EDU writes:
>>Hello.  I'm in the process of writing a rather large widget application and
>>would like to use the HP widget set to simplify things (I'd rather not have
>>to write my own menu widget stuff, if possible), but I gather from following
>>various net conversations that the HP widgets are in the process of being
>>phased out.  Is this true?  If it is true, what kind of time frame are we
>>talking about before they are no longer considered usable?  And lastly, if
>>they are on they're way out, is there anything that will be replacing them?
>
>I don't see any reason for not using the HP widget set -- other than that
>they will not be maintained (ie. automatically upgraded with future releases
>of X). This doesn't strike me as a significant problem unless the Toolkit
>Intrinsics undergo another major revision. 
>
One question Joel Rives, The School of Hard knocks has taught me that
Never assume that anything in the software world will not --undergo
another major revision.  It is life, as we know it.

		Mark T.



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