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From: mike@BACH.CS.BYU.EDU (Mike Burbidge)
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Subject: Open Windows 2.0 released (Sun press release)
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Date: 14 Aug 90 14:42:24 GMT
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>>      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?

Sounds like you just tried to slap together a small example. I found that
for any realistically complex application guide dictates its architecture.
For the small savings up front, I found that using guide was not worth
comprimising the overall architecture of my application.

Mike Burbidge
mike@bach.cs.byu.edu