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From: pbiron@weber.ucsd.edu (Paul Biron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Interface Builder and Sun's GUIDE
Keywords: Interface Builder; GUIDE ; Sun; X; OpenWindows; SunView
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Date: 10 Jun 90 18:42:03 GMT
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Has anyone in this group heard of or used GUIDE on a Sun
under OpenWindows?  Essentially, GUIDE is the equivalent
of Interface Builder for OpenWindows (Sun's X Window Manager).

Naturally, GUIDE generates C code instead of Objective-C.
I imagine one consequence of this is that you can't
design your own objects.  However, Since GUIDE generates
SunView calls (Sun's X toolkit, which is a superset of
the Xt toolkit) it has many (?) more standard objects
than are available with Interface Builder.  For instance,
one of the standard X Widgets is a Shell widget; which means
that any program can have an instant shell escape (which
minimizes the need for a user to also have a terminal window
open). [If I'm not mistaken, such an object is not amoung
the standard Interface Builder objects.]

Any comments would be appreciated.

p.s. I've only had minimal exposure to both Interface
Builder and GUIDE.
Paul Biron      pbiron@ucsd.edu        (619) 534-5758
Central University Library, Social Sciences DataBase Project
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, Ca. 92093