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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Help on Motif builders
Message-ID: <1990Dec23.171634.7829@alphalpha.com>
Date: 23 Dec 90 17:16:34 GMT
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In article <9012221248.AA01095@expo.lcs.mit.edu> ROBY%POGUN@dupont.COM ("Trey Roby  Ponca City, OK", ETN 442-4848) writes:
>               1. Has anyone seen a Motif builder that requires no knowledge
>                  of X or Motif to use?
No.  Although even using the Motif toolkit you often won't need much knowlege
of X.  However you should have a grounding in the basic concepts (particularly
in the ways in which X is asynchronous).

>               2. Is it true that Motif builders are not a short cut for 
>                  learning Motif, but only helps to speed up writing
>                  an application?
I can imagine using an IDT to help learn widget capabilities.  There are
some interactions that aren't clear from simply reading the docs, and a
builder can make it easier to play.  Unfortunately most of the interactions
that aren't clear occur when things change dynamically, and most IDTs aren't
any help there.

						-kee
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