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From: scott@talarian.UUCP (Scott Weitzenkamp)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: SunView and XView code possible in same process?
Keywords: SunView XView
Message-ID: <182@talarian.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 91 06:52:51 GMT
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  I am trying to write a program that has both a SunView and XView
user interface compiled into the *same* program.  This is on a
SPARCstation 1 with SunOS 4.0.3c and OpenWindows 2.0.  My main program
looks something like this:

main()
{
  if (getenv("DISPLAY")) {
    do_xview_stuff();
  } /* if */
  else {
    do_sunview_stuff();
  } /* else */
} /* main */

  The function do_xview_stuff calls XView functions (xv_create, etc),
and do_sunview_stuff calls SunView functions (window_create, etc).  The
problem is when I try to link and run this program.  

  I tried the following libraries first: 

-lxview -lolgx -lX11 -lsuntool -lsunwindow -lpixrect

  This gave me an executable where the XView UI worked, but the SunView
one just hung.  I also tried the following link order.

-lsuntool -lsunwindow -lpixrect -lxview -lolgx -lX11 

  This caused the SunView interface to work, but the XView interface
bombs with "SunDefaults Error" messages.  Looking at libxview.a with
nm, I see that libxview.a has a window_create function.  While I guess
I should not be too surprised, I am disappointed.  Now I have to
create two different executables, which IMHO is a waste of disk space.
  
  I guess I could also compile my own XView library that had
window_create (and the other SunView functions) renamed, but this is
rather unattractive.  Yet another alternative is to scrap the XView
interface, and use Motif instead :-).

  Can anyone out there think of any way to get a SunView and XView interface
in the same executable?
-- 
Thanks in advance...
Scott Weitzenkamp, Talarian Corporation, Mountain View, CA
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