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From: ytsai@attunix.att.COM
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Subject: Re: 3D widgets in the Openlook (XtIntrinsics) env
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Date: 5 Nov 90 22:57:00 GMT
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Chris Flatters <cflatter@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> writes:

    > Mark Thomas writes:
    > 
    >>> How do you get 3D wigets in Openlook? not Xview
    >>> I think that they are diffrent.
    >>>
    >>> Next assuming that they are diffrent. I know where I can get
    >>> Xview source, but not XtIntrinsics source. 
    >>> Are They the Same?
    > 
    > I presume both questions refer to AT&T's Xt based OPEN LOOK toolkit.  AT&T
    > insist on calling this OPEN LOOK, apparently to cause confusion, while

Should we give up the name of OPEN LOOK just because it stands for something
else?

(-: OPEN LOOK is a registered trademark of UNIX System Lab. [USL] :-)

    > Sun call it the OPEN LOOK Intrinsics Toolkit (OLIT), which is rather more
    > descriptive.  
    > 
    > The current version of OLIT does not support 3D user interface elements.
    > I believe that there is a version in the works that uses the OPEN LOOK
    > graphics library and will support 3D elements.  I have no idea when this
    > might appear.

The current version of OPEN LOOK does support 3D and mouseless (and of
course the pushpin).  It is just the matter of schedule when the ISV's
are going to release it.

    > If you need the sources to OLIT you will have to contact AT&T.  I believe
    > that Ma Bell will (antisocially) require you to present them with a
    > sizeable stack of portraits of dead presidents.

Are you saying that you don't need G. Washington to help acquire the Motif
coming with your DECstation 3100 or IBM/6000?  Yeap, you don't because it
doesn't show on the bill.  But, the fact is that both OPEN LOOK and Motif
cost the same for the source code.  I suppose it would be a BIG surprise
to you, wouldn't it?

    > 			Chris Flatters
    > ----------


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