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From: mhn@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Mark Notess)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XVT - Informations wanted
Message-ID: <6910014@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Sep 90 15:06:52 GMT
References: <6576@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de>
Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co.
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> fein@informatik.uni-kl.de (Frank Fein):
> Hi netters,
> I've heard about XVT as a toolkit providing many different look and feels.
> Rumors tell, that in the latest version OPEN LOOK and Motif are supported.
> 
> I would appreciate any information about this product, especially
> 
> 	- Where can I get XVT (is there a distributor in Germany)?
I don't know about availability in Deutschland.  But the address here is:

	Advanced Programming Institute
	Box 17665
	Boulder, CO 80308

	(303) 443-4223

> 	- How does it work (is it a real toolkit or a kind of precompiler,
> 	  producing `Motif-Widget Code' etc)?

It's a set of library routines that provide a "thin" layer atop a variety
of windowing systems.  It isn't a code generator.

> 	- Are there any publications available (beside M. Rochkinds article
> 	  in the 1989 USENIX Proceedings)?

I don't know.

> 	- Is it true, that an IEEE group working on a standard for GUI-APIs
> 	  uses XVT as a basis?

They tried to do this but were told not to.

Mark
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