Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!rochester!kodak!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: <1991Feb18.140448.2445@resam.dk> Date: 18 Feb 91 14:04:48 GMT References: <1991Feb13.121245.321@resam.dk> Distribution: comp Organization: RESAM Project Office, SAS, CPHML-V Lines: 37 In fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) writes: >>>>>> On 13 Feb 91 12:12:45 GMT, andrew@resam.dk (Leif Andrew Rump) said: >Leif> Warning: Don't use DevGuide - at least not version 1.1. >Why not? DevGuide will not do everything, but you will get up to speed >much faster. For putting together standard dialog boxes and the like, >DevGuide is real handy. >If you have found some specific problems, please explain! DevGuide is good for prototyping, but I was looking for an application that would maintain the user interface of my code and there DevGuide sure failed: The length of input fields is not global available, help is not fully implemented, there is no real multi window support (and if the windows is more or less equal then you are in deep sh*t!!), ... >Leif> And use C++ (I haven't tried it under OpenWindows but the object- >Leif> oriented way of programming XView - actually X - is build for C++ not >Leif> C (which I'm using at the moment :-( :-( :-( )) >It's not clear that the OOP-in-C style of XView is a good match for >C++ OOP. Using XView from C++ does not turn XView into a C++ class >hierarchy, i.e. you cannot use C++ inheritance on XView "objects". I partly agree! I'm writing a paint application and I would love to have OOP functionality to keep track on all the windows and their state in my application even though XView is only using "old" C. 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) < <