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From: everson@CompSci.Bristol.AC.UK (Phill Everson )
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: XView extensible?? Colour XView??
Message-ID: <969@csisles.Bristol.AC.UK>
Date: 12 Oct 89 07:57:43 GMT
Reply-To: everson@CompSci.Bristol.AC.UK ()
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK.
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Is XView extensible? Does anyone have any ideas as to the difficulty
of, say, attempting to code a different style slider under XView? I am
aware that SunView1 was basically non-extensible, but does anyone
'in-the-know' have any ideas about XView? Would anyone care to comment
on the possibility or feasibility of adding, say, a different style of
slider?

Also I've heard rumours that the recent release of the X11/NeWS merge
server from Sun (Open Windows) is slow when you try to use colour and
that a port of a colour graphics application from SunView1 to XView
using this server will take a real hit on performance. I have not seen
this myself so the rumour may be unstubstantiated, but if anyone has
definitive information I'd appreciate it.

Phillip G. Everson
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