Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!oresoft!mike
From: mike@oresoft.uu.net (Mike Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X portability
Message-ID: <1989Nov29.181310.14672@oresoft.uu.net>
Date: 29 Nov 89 18:13:10 GMT
Organization: Oregon Software, Inc.
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What is the best mechanism for insuring portability between multiple
platforms running X11R3?  I am new to X, and more than a little
bewildered by the number of options available to anyone writing X 
applications.  

I am writing an application that must run on the NCR Tower, HP
9000, and Sun-3.  I have been using the Athena widgets on the Sun, with
some sucess, however, to get the functionality I need, I am going to have
to make some pretty significant modifications (particularly to the 
asciiDiskWidget).  I don't really want to move  a gruesome hack
of the Athena widget set to every platform, as the first step in the
port.

What is a relatively "standard" approach to this problem?  Write 
everything in Xlib?  Write my own set of custom widgets? 

Thanks in advance for any advice.

mds


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