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From: marbru@attc.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: MOTIF vs Athena. Practical to conditionalize?
Message-ID: <933@attc.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 90 18:23:12 GMT
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Reply-To: marbru@auto-trol.com (Martin Brunecky)
Organization: Auto-trol Technology, Denver
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>> MOTIF is awfully dependent upon itself.  It is very easy to use
>> Athena widgets in any other Xt-based toolkit, but not MOTIF.
>> MOTIF widgets do all sorts of different things based upon the class
>> of its parent.

   (and child, of course...)

>
>It is tempting to believe the above until you see TeleUSE.....they allow
>you to mix and match Xt widgets freely using a mouse.   Motif and
>MIT widgets can coexist without problems.
>
    Coexist or cooperate ?

    What about Motif traversal. What about accelerators, mnemonics ...

    Sticking a widget into a DialogBox and making it appear on the
    screen is not all you need to write an application.
    (though all UI editor vendors will try to convince you that way).


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