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From: randy@erik.UUCP (Randy Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XView vs AT&T OpenLook Toolkit
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Date: 6 Oct 89 23:40:17 GMT
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We have the AT&T Open Look toolkit; it's an ordinary widget set, not too
different from the others.  We also have XView, which is NOT a widget
set (i.e., does not use the Intrinsics).  Sun is promising Guide for
interactive user interface generation; Expert Object Corp already has
Exocode available (at least it's Real Soon Now; we have the beta).  AT&T
is in beta with UIMX from Visual Edge Software.  UIMX promises to do
mmore than the others--it includes a C interpreter and can actually run
the application, perform callbacks, etc., while the UI is under
development.  Since it's in beta (and we haven't had it long) I can't
say how well it works.  

The AT&T widget set (Xol) si pretty slow right now, but there's to be a
big performance enhancement in January or so (things on the order of
replacing floating point with fixed point, etc.), so right now it's only
fair to say that it seems to function well.  If you buy the AT&T source 
code, all bets are off--my comments apply to the 386 binary version. 

If you're into widgets, use AT&T's toolkit; if you'd prefer to be
independent of the current fluxible state of the intrinsics as you go
from platform to platform, try Sun's XView source. ... rb