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From: david@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (David E. Smyth)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif,comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Toolkit for Open Look *and* OSF/Motif Look and Feel
Keywords: toolkit, Open Look, OSF/Motif, GUI
Message-ID: <11445@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 15 Feb 91 00:09:10 GMT
References: <1322@ixos.de>
Reply-To: david@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (David E. Smyth)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Lines: 59

> We are searching for a special toolkit for the
> development of graphical user interfaces(GUI) based on the X Window System.
> This toolkit should allow to get the Look and Feel of both toolkits,
> namely OSF/Motif and Open Look,
> out of one single applikation programming interface(API)!

Look into Wcl, the Widget Creation Library.  The API is basically
widget set independent.  Your application can take full advantage
of both OLIT and Motif widget sets.  Obviously, the user interfaces
will be somewhat different.  The C code *can* be identical.

The way it works is simple:  Wcl allows the entire widget interface to
be specified in Xrm resource files.  You always could specify all the
widget attributes in resource files (color, font, label, ...), and
bindings from events to action routines (translations).  Wcl adds
just a little code to allow the widget types, widget hierarchy, and
callbacks to be bound via the resource file.

The result is that your C code consists of a very simple main() routine
and then all of your actions and callbacks.  You don't write any XtSetArg,
XtSetValue, and XtCreateWidget code at all.

The latest version of Wcl, version 1.05, is available via ftp from JPL
and from MIT as well as comp.sources.x archive sites.

site name               internet id     compressed tar file name
---------               -------------   ------------------------
devvax.jpl.nasa.gov     128.149.1.143   /pub/Wcl/Wcl.1.05.tar.Z
expo.lcs.mit.edu        18.30.0.212     /contrib/Wcl.1.05/Wcl.1.05.tar.Z

Here is sorta how to get Wcl using ftp:

        % mkdir Wcl
        % cd Wcl
        % ftp devvax.jpl.nasa.gov
        ftp login: anonymous
        ftp passwd: <type in your login name and host>
        OK
        ftp> cd pub/Wcl
        ftp> binary
        ftp> get Wcl.1.05.tar.Z
        ftp> quit
        % uncompres Wcl.1.05.tar.Z
        % tar xvf Wcl.1.05.tar
        % more README

If you can't get it by ftp, then bug your system administrator.
If that still doesn't work, then I'll mail you the shar files.

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X and Object Guru.                      (818)393-0983
Jet Propulsion Lab, M/S 230-103, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109
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