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From: marti@ethz.UUCP (Robert Marti)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: XView Notifier
Keywords: XView, SunView, Notifier, events, UNIX signals etc.
Message-ID: <2032@ethz.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 89 13:09:00 GMT
Organization: ETH Zuerich
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SunView programs use the so-called Notifier which wants to be informed
about all sorts of events besides the window-related ones, eg., signals,
file descriptors ready for reading, and so on.  As a result, there is
an entire section of dos and donts for SunView programs in the SunView
Programmer's Guide.  This state of affairs is annoying when you want to
build a nice user-interface on top of someone elses code and that code
just happens to violate some of the rules imposed by the presence of
the Notifier.

Since the programmers' interface to XView is modeled after the SunView
interface, I fear the same (or similar) restrictions apply for XView
applications.  Is this assumption correct?

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