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From: fgreco@dprg-330.GOVt.shearson.COM (Frank Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: GUIDE and similar aids (plus editors question)
Message-ID: <9011071812.AA17542@islanders.>
Date: 7 Nov 90 18:12:08 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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> 1) Does anyone have tried GUIDE from Sun ? What other similar packages for
>   OPEN LOOK are available including public domain ? Suggestions?

	We use devGUIDE here quite a bit.  We're quite happy with it.
	The only other OL GUI builder that I know of is the Exocode beast
	(for XView), which I looked into some time ago and dropped
	because they did not have an evaluation policy.

	The devGUIDE approach of producing an API-independent specification
	file (the GIL file) seems to be the smart way to go.   You can
	develop OL apps with UI's developed with devGUIDE that use 
	XView (C and C++), Sun's Lisp, OLIT or TNT (the NeWS Toolkit).
> 
> 2) Would you recommend inexpensive text and simple charts editor
>    allowing for import of more complex postscript drawings? Anything
>    in public domain? (Must be better then troff and pic. Is there
>    xcip equivalent for Sparc1 - it would be acceptable).

	If you are Postscript, I'd suggest you look into X/NeWS.  It
	speaks Postscript quite naturally.


	Frank G.