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From: gjc@mitech.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: MOTIF vs Athena. Practical to conditionalize?
Message-ID: <7036@mitech.com>
Date: 11 Dec 90 10:05:53 GMT
References: <3132@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
Organization: Mitech Corporation, Concord MA
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In article <3132@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>, etaylor@wilkins.iaims.bcm.tmc.edu (Eric Taylor) writes:
> |>Is 3D effect really the reason that you would use such a toolkit?
> 
> 
> Well, I'll tell ya.  Everytime I come out with some X-based
> product using the Athena Widget Set, ...
> 
> In answer to your question .....    YES!!!!

Here is a question. How difficult is it to conditionalize or
abstract ones code such that different widget sets can be used
depending on the local configuration/availability?

Then if somebody has the MOTIF set on his system your application
could look 3d/MOTIF, and if *not* then you would use Athena
(and the person would probably not notice the difference, not being
*used* to the 3d look, since he doesn't have it on his machine).

-gjc

p.s. Just a suggestion in the form of a question.