Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!ira.uka.de!fauern!forwiss.uni-passau.de!nntpserver!himsolt From: himsolt@trillian-gw.fmi.uni-passau.de (Michael Himsolt) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: SunView-XView Conversion ? Message-ID: Date: 15 Oct 90 17:14:55 GMT Sender: usenet@forwiss.uni-passau.de (USENET News System) Distribution: comp Organization: University of Passau, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science Lines: 41 Hello, I am trying to convert a SunView application to XView, using XView 2.0 with X11R4. I wonder whether someone has experiences with SunView-XView conversion. I have some questions : - Sun claims easy conversion "within a view days". Any comments ? - My program involves both (a lot of) SunView windows and a built-in "graphic system" using Pixrect. What about XView performance under these circumstances ? The system must run on a SUN-3/50 with good performance (the SunView version had no problems). I have started some work on porting and ran into the following problems : - I could not print the 'Book.ps' file distributed with XView (xview/doc/conversion/Book.ps) on our laserwriter. The laserwriter stopped at page 13; the next feature should have been a sample Open Look screen. Any ideas what has gone wrong ? - Pixrect support seems to be strange. Without linking -lpixrect, I get warnings that mem_create and pr_text are undefined, the other routines seem to be defined. [I tried to link -lpixrect, but then I got a runtime error that pr_vector is unsupported]. As stated above, the program is heavily based on PixRect, so I need it. Is there a reasonable PixRect support in XView ? - Sun seems to provide some PixWin-compatible procedures, but I could not find anything about that in the XView Programming manual. All suggestions are welcome - thanks in advance -- Michael -- Michael Himsolt, Universitaet Passau, Innstrasse 33, D-8390 Passau, GERMANY himsolt@fmi.uni-passau.de graphed@fmi.uni-passau.de