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From: ejp@bohra.cpg.oz (Esmond Pitt)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: GUI independent libraries
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.034857.27143@bohra.cpg.oz>
Date: 25 Mar 91 03:48:57 GMT
References: <17705@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> <1991Mar23.200203.19492@ccad.uiowa.edu>
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In article <1991Mar23.200203.19492@ccad.uiowa.edu> cadsi@ccad.uiowa.edu (CADSI) writes:
> From article <17705@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>, by fhart@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Fred Hart):
>> I am looking for information on GUI libraries that provide independence
>> from the native GUI running on a given maching. In particular I am looking
>> for a library which will allow applications to be portable between MS Windows
>> OS/2 PM, and possibly some flavor of X. I am currently aware of the XVT 
>> toolkit and the CommonView C++ library. Are there any others? How good are
>> these and others? Are they very restrictive in function since they must
>> run on these different systems? Many thanks in advance.

Lancorp Pty Ltd +61 3 283 7800, fax +61 3 629 5801 (Melbourne,
Australia) has a product called Presentation Services Manager which
gives you PM/Windows-like programming. It runs under Motif, PM, Windows
3, and Mac II.

Obviously you only get in general the LCD of facilities, but this
extends as far as pixmap- as well as text-handling. They also provide
system-independent services interfaces e.g. for file handling, memory
management &c.

Disclaimer: I wrote some of it.


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Esmond Pitt, Computer Power Group
ejp@bohra.cpg.oz