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From: Erik.Hardy@sei.cmu.EDU
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Subject: Re: Help on Motif builders
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Date: 4 Jan 91 05:03:34 GMT
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Martin Brunecky:

>>>   The application writer must know/understand enough about the principles
>>>   of the Xt user interface methods/style/operation mode to make the
>>>   user interface writer's job even possible.

me:

>>In a word, no. The AW need know nothing about the underlying technology, be
>>it Xt, CORE, Xlib, PHIGS, or whatever.

Martin again:

>     I can't disagree more. The event driven model of Xt based application
>     is so significantly different from the old-style, solicited-input
>     approach, that an application writer MUST be aware of it.

There is nothing in Serpent that presupposes the event model; solicited input
is handled just fine.

Martin (and others), I presume you'll be at the X Conference. Whaddya' say
we table this for now and pick it up there?

erik

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