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From: ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Motif or Open Look Development Systems on IRIS; When?
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Date: 10 Oct 90 16:01:25 GMT
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Tim_Buxton@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU writes:


>  We have the Xlib X development system from SGI.  We want something
>higher-level, such as Motif or Open Look, as soon as possible.  is
>SGI offering these in the near future?  Are Third and Fourth Parties
>offering them?  We want Nice User Interfaces with X, but hate to
>sacrifice the GL graphics capabilities.  I think a few weeks
>back we were given some hope of combining the two in a window
>in the future.  Are there any further developments in that regard?

I kind of heard on the grapevine that SG's internal user interface toolkit
project has been cancelled. Could we please get a definitive comment from
SG here with regards to this ??

Most of us out here will really hurt *bad* if there is no 'higher level' 
toolkit for the efficient mixing of GL and X. The hardest part that I can
see with the mix of the two will be the handling of GL & X events. 
Sigh ..... _more_ things to try to take care of :-)

			ian

PS with regard to another followup to the original posting, I got to see the
UIMX product a few days ago - looks pretty slick.
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                Ian Hoyle
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