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From: mayer@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Niels Mayer)
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Subject: Re: Motif
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Date: 22 Nov 90 02:29:02 GMT
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In article <19901121005712.3.DFA@PLUM.SWW.Symbolics.COM> dfa@WHITE.SWW.SYMBOLICS.COM (David F. Aronson) writes:
>Does anybody know of a good source of some example X
>programs using the Motif widget set?  I am also looking
>for any articles/books reviewing or comparing the Motif
>widget set.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I suggest you purchase Doug Young's book "the X window system Programming
and applications with Xt, OSF/Motif edition", and grab the examples from
Doug's book, which are available via anon. ftp from expo.lcs.mit.edu in
directory contrib. I think the file is somehting like
young.examples.tar.Z..

You might also want to take a look at the example programs I distribute
with my WINTERP interactive development and extension environment for Motif
applications. The examples are written in WINTERP-Lisp, which is kind of
like emacs-lisp except that UI primitives are implemented via Motif widgets
rather than text-buffer operations. The lisp interpreter itself is based on
David Betz's XLISP, which provides a simple OOP extension allowing you to
easily subclass widgets, specialize them into application-objects, and even
work-around lacunae in the widgets themselves.

And since you work at Symbolics, you're probably not Lisp-phobic and like
the elegance of using real programming languages, rather than kludging
things up with C, X resources, and the various "user interface languages"
being promoted.

To give you an example of what's there, here are the names of the example
programs in the winterp distribution:
 bitmap-br.lsp bitmap-br2.lsp calculator.lsp
 callbacks.lsp colorsetr.lsp dialogshel.lsp form-widg1.lsp form-widg2.lsp
 form-widg3.lsp getvalues.lsp graphcalc-options.lsp graphcalc-sliderdisp.lsp
 graphcalc.lsp grep-br.lsp helloworld.lsp identifier.lsp initialize.lsp
 interact.lsp list-test.lsp mail-br.lsp menu-ex.lsp mng-test.lsp pixmaps.lsp
 popen.lsp popup-menu.lsp radiobox1.lsp radiobox2.lsp rc-shell.lsp
 scale-widg.lsp scooter.lsp setvalues.lsp text.lsp trans.lsp w_ctrlpnl.lsp

You may obtain the current source, documentation, and examples via
anonymous ftp from host expo.lcs.mit.edu: in directory contrib/winterp you
will find the compress(1)'d tar(1) file winterp-1.01.tar.Z. Slides, papers
and further documentation can be found in directory contrib/winterp/papers.
(In particular, you may be interested in a paper which will appear in an
upcoming ACM SIGPLAN on Lisp, aka "Lisp Pointers")

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		  Human-Computer Interaction Department
		       Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
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