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From: abair@turbinia.oakhill.uucp (Alan Bair)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Looking for guidlines for converting Suntools to X11.
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Date: 2 Nov 89 18:22:28 GMT
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In-reply-to: peter@hydrovax.nmt.edu's message of 2 Nov 89 10:45:55 GMT

In article <3426@nmtsun.nmt.edu> peter@hydrovax.nmt.edu (Peter A. Blemel) writes:

   Hi everyone,

      We're all novices at X here. Does anyone have any written guidelines
   for converting Suntools stuff to X11. Basically anything that talks
   about duplicating functionality would be appriciated (I.e. This sequence
   of calls in X is basically the same as calling xxx in sunview.)

   Thanks
   Peter
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   peter@hydrovax.nmt.edu
   peter@amber.nmt.edu

This sounds like a perfect candidate for the Sun XView toolkit.  It is
a toolkit for X that uses the SunView programming API. This does not 
provide a mapping from SunView to X calls, but allows you
to bascily recompile your SunView application with the new toolkit.
Then what previously ran under SunTools, now runs under X Windows.

Its freely distributable.  You should be able to find it on any of the X
archives or at other archive sites, like osu-cis.  It will be part of
the X11R4 contrib section.  You should also be able to get it from
your Sun salesman.

--
Alan Bair
SPS CAD                   Logic Simulation & Test
Motorola, Inc.            Austin, Texas
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