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From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Xlib graphics within widgets
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Date: 26 Oct 89 20:37:37 GMT
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> > A better, better solution is to write your own widget to do the job.

> I aggree it is not difficult to create a widget, but since in most
> widget toolkits exist allready
> the drawing widget (DEC : window , MOTIF : drawing_area, ...) ... why
> re-invent the wheel ?

I did not mean that you should write a widget to do generic drawing, I meant
that you should write a widget to do whatever task it is that you feel requires
these graphics.  For instance write yourself a BarGraph widget, or a Plotting
widget, etc.  Use Xt to build yourself an object that will do the task.  This
will not only make for a more compact program, but will make things easier to
understand since all the Xlib calls will be wrapped up in widgets, and not
in the main body of the program.  Modularity, and Object-Oriented programming,
what a great idea :-)

[ Okay, I'll get off my soapbox now... ]

						Chris D. Peterson     
						MIT X Consortium 

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