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From: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: GUI Portability: Say MOTIF
Summary: stdwin assumes a braindead windowing system
Message-ID: <4301@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 7 Oct 89 03:29:18 GMT
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In article <1266@quintus.UUCP> pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes:
>There is an attempt to build a portable windowing interface called
>STDWIN.  That's about all I know about it.  Does anyone know if there
>are Amiga and X interfaces for it?  If so, this might be a reasonable
>approach to writing applications that work under both X and Intuition.

One crummy thing about stdwin, programs under it have to know how to redraw 
their windows.

...last time I had a look, several months ago, they didn't have Amiga support.
It didn't look supremely difficult to port; I imagine somebody's done it by
now.
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