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From: rob@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Wallen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Toolkit summary requested
Message-ID: <3132@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au>
Date: 21 Dec 90 07:33:57 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
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Apologies if this is an FAQ but I am new to this particular bunch of news groups
and still dont know which keywords in Subject:s I should be looking for.

I am looking for information/personal opinion on the various toolkits around
that can sit on top of X.  The problem I am trying to solve involves building
systems which should be portable to X, Mac and Windows-III and for now I want
to identify what common subsets I will need to work within.

So, what toolkits are there and how similiar are they?  Can I pick up code
written for Motif and recompile for Open-Look without editing?  Are there other
products like XVT which cover more than one platform?

Also, do *any* of these systems give me text which can be rotated through 'n'
degrees (where n is not a multiple of 90) without having to do my own bitmap
rotation after drawing the text?

Mail please as I'm sure the rest of the net already knows this stuff.