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From: vp01@GTE.COM (Vincent Phuah)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Help on distributed user interfaces
Keywords: X, Widgets, distributed workstations
Message-ID: <7639@bunny.GTE.COM>
Date: 13 Oct 89 22:13:15 GMT
Organization: GTE Laboratories, Inc., Waltham, MA
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Hi there,

I am looking for suggestions on how to implement the following
problem prefably using widgets and the X Intrinsics.

Problem:

  How to implement an X client running on one workstation
  that is able to control, when required, the user-interface interactions of 
  the same client running on another workstation and vice-versa. (Presumebly,
  the client is running locally on a workstation equipped with the
  X server). Let me clarify the problem with the following example.

  I want to build a simple X client which has two buttons labelled WA and 
  WB and a scrollbar. (WA and WB represent workstation A and B
  respectively.) When the user on WA presses the WA button, he has
  control over the scrollbar, which means that if he slids the
  thumb of the scrollbar, the user on WB should "see" the same effect
  on WB's screen. User on WB can get control of the scrollbar by pressing 
  the WB button. Remember that each workstation is running a copy of
  the same client. 

Thanks in advance.

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*    Vincent Phuah                                                *
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