Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!world!decwrl!sgi!shinobu!odin!jym From: jym@sgi.com (jim terhorst) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: Motif or Open Look Development Systems on IRIS; When? Keywords: SGI X Window System Motif Message-ID: <1990Oct10.183307.6074@odin.corp.sgi.com> Date: 10 Oct 90 18:33:07 GMT References: <6985921@um.cc.umich.edu> Sender: Jim Terhorst Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 36 In article ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle) writes: >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? SGI announced support for the Motif toolkit at the Federal Computer Conference a couple weeks ago. It will be shipping in December, 1990 or January 1991. >>Are Third and Fourth Parties offering them? ICS offers Motif for the SGI platform today. >>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? Keep your eyes peeled to this forum for further developments in this area. >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 ?? This is still an open issue at SGI. >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 :-) Again, keep your eyes peeled to this forum for information regarding this issue. Jim Terhorst X and Motif Product Marketing Manager Silicon Graphics Computer Systems