Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM!wmb
From: wmb@MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: X windows
Message-ID: <9008271923.AA29373@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 27 Aug 90 06:37:17 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Reply-To: wmb%MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM@SCFVM.GSFC.NASA.GOV
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 15

> it may be even more attractive just to LOAD X
> routines dynamically and CALL them from Forth, that is to write a dynamic
> runtime interface with C in .OBJ file form.  Has anybody done this or
> something similar_?

My Sun Forth system has had this feature for years.

> I know that Sun uses NEWS and not X and that NEWS has advantages,

Sun supports both NeWS and X simultaneously.  The latest Sun window
system interprets both the X protocol and the NeWS protocol.
You can mix X windows, NeWS windows, and old SunView applications
on the same screen.  Everything "plays" together just fine.

Mitch