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From: burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Motif UI Editor/Text Editor?
Summary: X widget editors
Message-ID: <628@mmlai.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 89 13:12:37 GMT
References: <8912080101.AA03753@romana.adobe.com>
Organization: Martin Marietta Labs, Baltimore, MD
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In article <8912080101.AA03753@romana.adobe.com>, caro@adobe.COM (Perry A. Caro) writes:
> 1. User Interface editor/composer.  This is a tool that allows us to
>    create dialog boxes, menus, etc. as quickly and easily as possible.
>    This tool should use the Motif toolkit and be capable of using
>    or generating UIL.  We would prefer, though not require, that the
>    tool run on Ultrix on a DECStation.  Also acceptable would be
>    a tool that is configurable for any toolkit, or one that targets
>    the DECWindows toolkit.
Ask an HP rep to get you a demo of their UILX application editor (currently
in beta release)  It has interactive screen placement of MOTIF widgets,
creation of callbacks and all that stuff.  Writes out the C code at the
end, which HP claims is faster than hand-coded equivalents.  I saw it, and
am quite sure that several month projects will shrink to a few days :-)

> 2. A mouse-based text editor suitable for editing C code.  The functionality
>    should be similar to that of the SunView text editor.

Wouldn't you rather have a CASE environment also?  Try HPs' SoftBench, a
very nice environment (the first clear presentation of the debugger I have
seen) and it runs under MOTIF.

(No, I just use HPs)

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