Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!decwrl!sgi!shinobu!odin!cook From: cook@sgi.com (Doug Cook) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: SunView-XView Conversion ? Message-ID: <1990Oct15.174831.13071@odin.corp.sgi.com> Date: 15 Oct 90 17:48:31 GMT References: Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News) Distribution: comp Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 32 In article himsolt@trillian-gw.fmi.uni-passau.de (Michael Himsolt) writes: >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. >- Sun claims easy conversion "within a view days". Any comments ? Sun's claim is both true and untrue. You can probably get your application up and running fairly quickly. However, if you use a lot of pw (pixwin) calls, you'll probably want to convert them over to Xlib drawing for performance reasons. XView supports most of pixwin for backwards compatibility, but there are serious performance penalties for using this functionality. That is why most of the XView pixwin calls are (largely) undocumented; they're not meant to be used for "serious" applications. This conversion to Xlib may require a substantial amount of effort. >- 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 ? There was a patch for this posted to the net a while back. I don't know if the Book.ps file on expo was updated. -Doug Doug Cook |"Why don't you break up with her?" I Video Group, Advanced Systems Division | asked. Silicon Graphics, Inc. |"WELL, SHE DOESN'T ALWAYS BEAT ME UP," Mountain View, CA | Owen replied. | -John Irving