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From: jcb@frisbee.Sun.COM (Jim Becker)
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Subject: Re: Which OpenLook for Amiga?
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Date: 4 May 90 22:47:04 GMT
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nhoj@hicom.hitachi.com (John Marvin) writes:

   Which OpenLook?

   The Amiga UNIX is supposed to run OpenLook, my question is which
   toolkit will it use?  AT&T xt toolkit based or Sun xview toolkit?
   I vote for xview, the API is much nicer...

   John Marvin  Hitachi Computer Products
   j_marvin@hitachi.com


My guess is neither.  Open Look is a *specification*,  rather  than  a
toolkit.    It's  very  possible  that  Jim  Macraz  converted/rewrote
Intuition to look & feel like Open Look, but didn't  base  it  on  the
existing toolkits. It would be easiest to take this approach, starting
from Intuition, than to base it off of existing X/Unix solutions.

If Xt+ was used that drags you into the land of the Intrinsics and the
X  Window  System.   If  XView is used you are also in the X world but
there is plenty of Unix (and BSD) specific stuff within  it.  I  doubt
that  getting  this  to  work  on AmigaDOS would be easy. (I know both
pretty intimately.)


-Jim Becker

 XView Development Group
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	 Jim Becker / jcb%frisbee@sun.com  / Sun Microsystems