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From: alan@cogswell.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Alan S. Mazer)
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Subject: Re: Open Windows 2.0 released (Sun press release)
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Date: 13 Aug 90 20:08:49 GMT
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In article <4057@trantor.harris-atd.com>, chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) writes:
> Basically, OW 2.0 gives
> you all of X, all of NeWS, and all of SunView on one machine.

Unless OW 2.0 is substantially improved in capabilities as well as speed from
OW 1.0, some SunView code will not run.  In fact, I personally haven't seen
any of our SunView code around here that run well under xnews.  This isn't a
flame; just don't get your hopes up.

>      I just ported contool, my Sun console watcher, to X.  I retained the
> basic appliactions code, but rebuilt the interface using GUIDE, Sun's OPEN LOOK
> interface builder.  Anyone doing any development for XView needs to look at 
> GUIDE.  I was able to build a base window and six dialog boxes in a just a few
> hours.  Hit a button, and out comes 3,000 lines of source code.  Add your
> application routines, and away you go.  And at $295 per unlimited site license,
> how can you go wrong?

You can lose $295 :-).  We've had two different people here try to use GUIDE
and in both cases it was just more trouble than it was worth.  GUIDE does
generate lots of source code and if you want to generate source code quickly,
you can use it.  People here found that they could do the same things with
much less code simpler and more cleanly outside of GUIDE.

-- Alan			       # My aptitude test in high school suggested that
   ..!ames!elroy!alan	       # I should become a forest ranger.  Sometimes I
   alan@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov     # wonder if that was not indeed my true calling.