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From: marks@agcsun.UUCP (Mark Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: InterViews vs. Xt
Message-ID: <824@agcsun.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 90 16:55:46 GMT
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Reply-To: marks@agcsun.UUCP (Mark Shepherd)
Organization: Ampex VSD Golden Engineering, Golden, CO
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In article <1681@dinl.mmc.UUCP> noren@dinl.UUCP (Charles Noren) writes:
>Here is the situation:
>
>1.  We will be using a commercial C++ compiler.
>2.  We are redoing a graphical user interface using X-Windows
>    as the foundation......  [list of widgets]
>
> [we are looking at Xt and InterViews] 
> Is there another toolkit that we should be examining?

Look at the product from Solbourne called OI (Object Interface?). It
is a set of C++ classes that gives access to all the usual widgets. The
unique feature of this toolkit is that by toggling a switch you can
get the widgets to look like Open Look or Motif, without having to
change any of your code. I recently saw a demo of some 
reasonably complex applications written with the toolkit 
and it seems to work. The vendor claims that they do (or will) support
100% of the functionality defined for both OpenLook and Motif, and that
they will evolve the product over time to keep up with changing standards.

Solbourne is in Longmont, CO. I was told that the first release of 
the product should be available this month for Open Look, and around
the end of the year for Motif. 

[disclaimer: I am not affiliated in any way with Solbourne, and am
merely passing on information that was given to me by the vendor].

Mark Shepherd
agcsun!marks@boulder.colorado.edu
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