Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eng.sun.COM!hvr From: hvr@eng.sun.COM (Heather Rose) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: 3D widgets in the Openlook (XtIntrinsics) env Message-ID: <9011061826.AA11621@kimba.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 6 Nov 90 18:26:40 GMT Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background) Organization: The Internet Lines: 56 > >From xpert-mailer@expo.lcs.mit.edu Fri Nov 2 21:05:00 1990 > From: agate!shelby!portia.stanford.edu!mat60@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Mark Thomas) > Organization: AIR, Stanford University > Subject: 3D widgets in the Openlook (XtIntrinsics) env > References: > Sender: xpert-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu > To: xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu > > 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? XView and the OPEN LOOK Xt Intrinsics products are different. The XView toolkit from Sun Microsystems writes directly to Xlib and offers a SunView compatible API. The OPEN LOOK toolkit from AT&T/USL writes to the Xt intrinsics and offers an Xt style API compatible with other Xt based widget sets (it's most similar to Athena and HP widgets). The OPEN LOOK X Toolkit (OL) from AT&T/USL used to be known as "Xt+" and is offered by Sun Microsystems with the OpenWindows Version 2 (OWV2) product under the name of the OPEN LOOK Intrinsics Toolkit (OLIT). The current release of OL source from AT&T/USL is 2.0+ which is what OLIT 2.0 is based on. The major difference between Sun's OLIT 2.0 and AT&T/USL's OL 2.0+ product is that OLIT 2.0 is based on the X11R4 Xt Intrinsics while OL 2.x is based on the X11R3 Xt Intrinsics. (This was necessary since OWV2 is an X11R4 based X environment.) The next release of the OL source product from AT&T/USL will include the 3-D look with its widgets based on the X11R4 Xt Intrinsics among other features. Stay tuned for announcements from USL on source availability for the next release of OL. If you are interested in OLIT binary availability from Sun, please contact me, Heather Rose at (415) 336-4846 or by email at hvr@eng.sun.com. The next release of OLIT will have the 3-D look. One can get the toolkit binaries from software suppliers. Please contact AT&T/USL as to availablility for platforms other than Sun. 1-800-ATT-UNIX is the main number. One may purchase source to the OL widget set from AT&T/USL. Prices are competitive with other commercially offered toolkits. Sun also offers OLIT source as part of the OpenWindows Version 2 (OWV2) source product (formal announcement coming soon on OWV2 source licensing). Also, source to both XView and OL are available on the System V Release 4 (SVR4) graphics update tape from AT&T/USL (based on OW 1.0.1). Note: USL, UNIX System Labs, is no longer a division within AT&T, but a separate company (currently wholely owned by AT&T.) USL only sells source, not binaries. AT&T's Computer Systems Business (CSB) offers the OL binaries for the machines they sell running either SVR3.2 or SVR4. Regards, Heather Rose, hvr@eng.sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc.