Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!dkuug!resam!andrew From: andrew@resam.dk (Leif Andrew Rump) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Xview - what do you think? Message-ID: <1991Feb13.121245.321@resam.dk> Date: 13 Feb 91 12:12:45 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: RESAM Project Office, SAS, CPHML-V Lines: 26 In tree@sadye.uvm.edu (Tom Emerson) writes: >Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I'm interested in hearing (reading?) >peoples views towards XView, specifically in relation to its ease of >use and performance. I'm working on a large application which must >have a good interface. Is Xview the way to go? I would rather not >spend the time making modifications to Athena Widgets... It's very easy to use and it hasn't constrained our project (i.e. it has all the facilities we need) even though OpenLook has some funny ideas (like popup windows always has a pushpin so the user may pin a window for ever after). The performance is OK but there is some weird bugs around. Warning: Don't use DevGuide - at least not version 1.1. And use C++ (I haven't tried it under OpenWindows but the object- oriented way of programming XView - actually X - is build for C++ not C (which I'm using at the moment :-( :-( :-( )) Leif Andrew Leif Andrew Rump, AmbraSoft A/S, Stroedamvej 50, DK-2100 Copenhagen OE, Denmark UUCP: andrew@ambra.dk, phone: +45 39 27 11 77 / Currently at Scandinavian Airline Systems =======/ UUCP: andrew@resam.dk, phone: +45 32 32 51 54 \ SAS, RESAM Project Office, CPHML-V, P.O.BOX 150, DK-2770 Kastrup, Denmark > > Read oe as: o / (slash) and OE as O / (slash) < <