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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: ???? Which UIMS to use ????
Message-ID: <1990Dec23.171226.7724@alphalpha.com>
Date: 23 Dec 90 17:12:26 GMT
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In article <100920265@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com> dex@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Dex Smith) writes:
>>  What if I need to use a non-Motif widget as well (e.g. Table)?
>
>HP Architect 1.0 does not let you add to its palette of widgets.  However,
>since it has a complete built-in C interpreter, *any* C code can be used
>during development, including custom widget code or additional libraries.
Any?  K&R or ANSI?  What about platform local extensions?  E.g. alignment
directives on HP/Apollo workstations.  In any case, I'm using C++, so....

...
>The "HP Interface Architect Developer's Guide" provides a step-by-step
>procedure for adding additional widgets.
But by "adding" you just mean I can use them in my code, right?  Above
you say they can't be in the palette.

>          * Portable Motif code generation utility.
What exactly is this?

>          * Online help (provided via the HP VUE Help Manager).
Does that mean you have to run HP VUE to use it?  What are the memory
requirements?

					-kee
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