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From: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: User Interface Generation Tools
Message-ID: <318@auto-trol.UUCP>
Date: 9 Oct 89 18:48:16 GMT
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Reply-To: ncar!ico!auto-trol!marbru (Martin Brunecky)
Organization: Auto-trol Technology, Denver
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Re: Extending the built-in UIL tables.

There is a documented way for adding user-written widgets to the UIL by
including widget definition file. However, any reference to such widget
must use "user-defined" clause, plus the application must register
all the widget creation routines (for use by DRM). The UIL build-in
tables are (I'v been told) created by VAX Scan, so they are not quite 
easy to modify.

However, considering how many more importand defficiencies the UIL has,
the way to include user-written widgets is not too clumersome. I am
using it for the whole widget set (buttons, organizers etc.), and it's
not too bad.

On the other hand, I would like to join the UIL-bashers club, if there
is one ...
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