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From: argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Completeness of O'Reilly and Heller (was Re: Panel Lists)
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Date: 29 Dec 90 22:09:08 GMT
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In article <1990Dec27.122147.20769@cs.hope.edu> jipping@cs.hope.edu 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 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?

O'Reilly currently has no plans for providing an XView reference
book and Sun is not planning on providing one either.  I cannot be
more specific about this, but I can recommend UTSL (Use The Source,
Luke) for particular problems.

For the particular case about the PANEL_LIST_* attributes discussed
here, those attrs were not available at the time the book was written.
I had to be through with the book 2 months before first shipment.  A
lot of code got added in the interim including much of the panel list
stuff.  Generally, this shouldn't be too much of a problem, tho.

--
dan
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