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From: willis@ecoult.ncsu.edu (Bill Willis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Motif -> Open Look look & feel
Keywords: motif open look openlook
Message-ID: <1990Jun28.111050.17353@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 90 11:10:50 GMT
References: <2986@osc.COM>
Reply-To: willis@ecoult.ncsu.edu.UUCP (Bill Willis)
Organization: North Carolina State University
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In article <2986@osc.COM> george@osc.com (George Baggott) writes:
>Does anyone out there know anything about putting an Open Look look and feel on
>a motif application?  In an ideal world I would be able to link against some
>Open Look version of Xm and my application would be ported to open look without
>my having to change a line of code.  Does such a thing exist?  I am aware of
>Solbourne's OI Toolkit which supports both Motif and Open Look from a single
>C++ toolkit.  It looks neat, but I would prefer to avoid throwing away my motif
>and UIL code and starting from scratch.  Any info would be greatly appreciated.
>I will post a summary of whatever replies I get...

I think that the two are mutually exclusive. Each GUI is first a look
and feel then a toolkit to impleme the required widgets. They are
different enough that this is probably never going to happen...

Stick with Motif... It looks like it will be around longer and touch
more platforms...


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