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From: jipping@cs.hope.edu (Mike Jipping)
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Subject: Completeness of O'Reilly and Heller (was Re: Panel Lists)
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Date: 27 Dec 90 12:21:47 GMT
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In article <22135@mvis1.com>, frose@ (Flavio Rose) writes:

> Some questions on XView that I can't seem to figure out from
> the O'Reilly manual (next step is read the source code... or
> is there some other manual?).

This brings up a question that nags me a lot.  There is a significant
amount of XView functionality and information that Heller does not
provide in his "XView Programming Manual".  For example, you won't find
the PANEL_LIST_CHOOSE_NONE attribute anywhere in that book.  Many times I
have used Sun's GUIDE tool for constructing an interface, and spent time
looking at the source code it generates, because it uses code I have not
seen in Heller.

This would not be troublesome if Sun included an exhaustive, complete
alternative source for the XView toolkit.  I could accept Heller's book
and a good "programming manual" and Sun's edition as the "reference
guide".  BUT...all we get from Sun is Heller's book, which is incomplete.

Does anyone have a solution to this?

      Mike Jipping
      Hope College Department of Computer Science
      jipping@cs.hope.edu  (BITNET: JIPPING@HOPE)

      "The 70's are over old man.  Take your mood ring and
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