Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!mit-eddie!apollo!oj From: oj@apollo.HP.COM (Ellis Oliver Jones) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: using X on sr10.2 Message-ID: <474df33b.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> Date: 8 Dec 89 15:15:00 GMT References: <46ee595d.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <47256e8e.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <472c86a7.81da@digital.sps.mot.com> Sender: root@apollo.HP.COM Reply-To: oj@apollo.hp.com (Ollie Jones) Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA Lines: 44 In article <472c86a7.81da@digital.sps.mot.com> chen@digital.sps.MOT.COM (Jinfu Chen) writes: >I'd like to find out which Motif part is in the standard release and >which is not (e.g. mwm included with SR10.2 like uwm? ). No OSF/Motif software is bundled with SR10.2, not the header files, not the man pages, not the .a files, not the libraries, and not the window manager. You can order an OSF/Motif binary kit containing all the things I mentioned, precompiled, for either kind of CPU (Motorola 68k or Prism). If it doesn't start shipping today, it starts shipping Monday. This kit is suitable for application developers (or end users). You can also buy a source kit directly from OSF and compile it yourself (but you'll miss out on a few bug fixes). It's not hard to compile; if I were betting my company on the efficient development of OSF/Xt/Motif applications I'd buy the source kit AND the vendor-furnished binaries. >Also what is Open Dialog's rule in terms of supporting Motif? Open Dialogue V2.0 (the Apollo version) was committed to replication last Tuesday, so it should hit the streets in January. It contains a set of "classes" (Open Dialogue jargon with roughly the same meaning as "widget") which let you use it to make a human interface with the Appearance and Behavior (we're not supposed to say L**k and F**l) given in the OSF/Motif Style Guide. Open Dialogue V2.0 for Sun 3 and Sun 4 (SunOS 4), as well as the C++ source kit, get committed to replication today (shortly after I quit fooling around with netnews :-), and also should hit the streets in January. It'll be out for HP9000-3xx HPUX machines shortly as well, and various third parties have ported it to other machines and OSs. >Suppose I'm going to write a Motif compliant program on >Apollo at SR10.2, what kind of products should I buy from Apollo? Either OSF/Motif or Open Dialogue should meet your needs. Both let you develop portable applications, as well as applications specifically for Domain/OS. /Ollie Jones (speaking for myself, not necessarily for HP Apollo Systems Division)