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From: paulsh@denali.wv.tek.com (Paul Shearer)
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Subject: Re: XVT information please
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Date: 23 Oct 90 20:08:20 GMT
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	Subject: XVT information please
	Date: 22 Oct 90 21:08:37 GMT
	
	Specifically:
	
	1. What does it do exactly? (I am told that it allows you to write an
	   application that will run under multiple windowing environments simply
	   by rebuilding with the appropriate versions of XVT for the desired
	   windowing environments).

XVT: is an API that has drivers for the following window systems.

Macintosh
MS-Windows
OS/2 Presentation Manager
X window System 
Character Screen

You write your application using XVT function calls.
Link your application to different XVT libraries depending on what window
system you want the application to run on.

Limitations are the obvious ones, to be portable you must use XVT calls
and not the window system specific calls.  In many cases the XVT calls
will provide the lowest common denominator functionality.  (Example, there
is no support for hierarchical popup menus.)

	
	2. Can you tell me about your experiences with XVT?

None, only read the manual.
	
	3. Where can it be obtained, and how much does it cost? 

XVT Software, Inc.
1800 30th St. #204
Box 17665
Boulder, CO 80308
(303) 443-4223
	
	
Paul Shearer
M.S. 60-850
Tektronix, Inc.
P.O. Box 1000
Wilsonville, OR
	 97070-1000

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