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From: pusateri@macbeth.cs.duke.edu (Thomas J. Pusateri)
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Subject: Re: Xlib graphics within widgets
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Date: 18 Oct 89 13:33:39 GMT
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In article <1210019@hpfcmgw.HP.COM> chan@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Chan Benson) writes:
>I'm sorry, this is a piss-poor attitude.  As someone who is firmly 
>entrenched in Xt and widget writing, it's very easy for you to say
>"write your own." Most application writers don't care to know how to 
>write a widget. They just want to write their application, not be
>indoctrinated into the great church of Xt. What do you know about
>what services developers want? Have you asked them?

Although I don't feel as harshly about this as Chan Benson does, I
don't think that a drawing or even graphing widget is an unreasonable
request.  If nothing else, maybe you could take Bhalla's and Uhley's
Athena Graph Widget written at Caltech and clean it up a little. (It's
colormap implementation and restrictive fonts make it undesirable to
use as a general tool.)

Just my $0.02

Tom Pusateri

pusateri@nbsr.duke.edu