Path: utzoo!censor!comspec!lethe!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!cricket.bio.indiana.edu!gilbertd From: gilbertd@cricket.bio.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: MacApp type environment for Suns Message-ID: <1991Feb15.031156.3563@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Date: 15 Feb 91 03:11:56 GMT References: <591@hydra.bucknell.edu> Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Biology, Indiana University - Bloomington Lines: 36 In article rsw@cs.brown.EDU (Bob Weiner) writes: >In article <591@hydra.bucknell.edu> zaccone@castor.bucknell.edu (zaccone - 1393) writes: > >> It seems that since the Suns lack a concept of how a "standard" >> application should look, a product similar to MacApp for the Suns ... >Get ET++. It is an application building framework of approximately 240 classes .. >The environment is very rich. It includes support for: > multi-views that communicate, like Smalltalk's MVC; > tree and graph layout classes; > nice class and object inspectors; > panners that use double buffering so you are not limited to scroll > bars; > automatic layout of text mixed with graphics, e.g. embed > hypertext buttons; > constraint-based resource layout, so when you modify one widget > the rest of the widgets displayed with it are not harmed; > nesting of windows or other control devices; > garbage collection (somewhat limited) > generic container classes and most of the classes you apt to > want for typical application development. > >All of this was done by two CS professors from another country. All I >can say is they should come to the US and start teaching developers and >students about the importance of doing the user interface right. This sounds very much like InterViews (anon. ftp to interviews.stanford.edu, written by some local profs, I gather). Can someone who has used both compare their strengths & weaknesses? (Or was this the subject of some previous news... it fades so quickly). -- Don -- Don Gilbert gilbert@bio.indiana.edu biocomputing office, biology dept., indiana univ., bloomington, in 47405