Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sunybcs!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!wf08+ From: wf08+@andrew.cmu.edu (William Frank) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Xw on Sparc? Xaw vs Xw vs XView? Interp layout contraints? Message-ID: Date: 17 Mar 90 08:29:27 GMT References: <6873.25ff8b27@swift.cs.tcd.ie>, <90Mar16.165337est.242@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> Organization: Class of '91, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 37 In-Reply-To: <90Mar16.165337est.242@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> > Excerpts from netnews.comp.windows.x: 16-Mar-90 Re: Xw on Sparc? Xaw vs > Xw .. Mark Moraes@cs.toronto.e (4816) > >(3) After getting the version of Xw from the contrib section of the > X11R4 > >release tape and compiling it, I was disappointed to see that it's not > the 3-D > >version that's used in Young's book (3-D as in buttons looking slightly > raised, > >text input boxes slightly sunken, etc.). Can this be got? > Not easily, no. If you happen to have a pre-R3 copy around (the one > that was on expo.lcs.mit.edu for a while before the R3 release), that > had the 3d look. It got taken out possibly because of the look and > feel litigation, or perhaps because HP just wanted to keep the spiffy > looks for their product release only. Since I personally don't see > why 3d is so desirable, I didn't care much. It's probably feasible to > put it back in (I remember taking the 3d stuff out of the button code > to try and get xpic to start in finite time -- on the R3 Xsun, drawing > the 3d stuff was agonizingly slow) The widget set with the 3d look was turned into a the X Common Interface by HP; the book states that the examples were compiled using this. I believe that they are source compatible. The 3d look is also incorporated into Motif. > Excerpts from netnews.comp.windows.x: 16-Mar-90 Re: Xw on Sparc? Xaw vs > Xw .. Mark Moraes@cs.toronto.e (4816) Doug Young's book is now out in a Motif version. And it's very cool. -will frank wgf@cs.cmu.edu