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From: richard@unipalm.co.uk (Richard)
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Subject: Porting  A t h e n a -Widgets to Motif-Widgets
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Date: 25 Jul 90 10:11:18 GMT
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When I worked for my previous company, I ported our Y-OpenTop desktop
from Athena Widgets to Motif in about 2 man weeks. The easiest way to
start is with UIL, to generate the main windows that you are going to
need.

Unfortunately, I found that UIL is too slow for the real thing (It
took around 10 seconds for the popup menus to popup the first time),
so, having got the visual part of the applications defined, I recoded
all the UIL stuff into raw Motif widget calls.

You should use the opportunity of the port to rework the interface,
with particular reference to things like popup menus, accelerators and
use of composite widgets such as file selection boxes.

Richard.