Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!auvdeso From: auvdeso@auvc15.tamu.edu (John DeSoi) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Macintosh vs. X windows Message-ID: Date: 29 Jan 91 14:30:53 GMT References: <9101290635.AA15587@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Texas A&M University Lines: 39 In-reply-to: mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU's message of 29 Jan 91 06:35:38 GMT ... > Well, I'm neither in the X nor Mac mainstream, but I've done a bit of > programming in both. ... It seems if you really have a choice between using X or the Mac, you should look more closely at what your application is going to do and what primitives/tools are available to implement it. While I am relatively new at programming in both of these environments, it seems that certain types of applications would be much easier in one versus the other. One example that comes to mind is working with regions. The Mac toolbox can tell you if a point is in a region defined by any arbitrary combination of closed graphics figures. From what I know about X so far, it appears that only regions constructed from rectangles and polygons are supported. If I'm developing a drawing application where I need to know if the user clicked in a circle on the screen, I would hate to have to write the code to figure this out myself. John +--------------+ Department of Computer Science | | (409) 845-9979, 845-4306 Texas A&M University | John DeSoi | INTERNET: desoi@cs.tamu.edu College Station, TX 77843-3112 | | BITNET: jfd5947@tamvenus +--------------+ -- +--------------+ Department of Computer Science | | (409) 845-9979, 845-4306 Texas A&M University | John DeSoi | INTERNET: desoi@cs.tamu.edu College Station, TX 77843-3112 | | BITNET: jfd5947@tamvenus +--------------+