Xref: utzoo comp.windows.open-look:1103 comp.windows.news:2563 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!convex!texsun!newstop!exodus!hopkins From: hopkins@sun.com (Don Hopkins) Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look,comp.windows.news Subject: Re: NeWS Toolkilt 2.0 Pricing Message-ID: Date: 4 Apr 91 01:03:46 GMT References: Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Followup-To: comp.windows.open-look Distribution: na Organization: Sun Microsystems, TNT factory Lines: 41 In-reply-to: bob@MorningStar.Com's message of 3 Apr 91 21:22:05 GMT In article bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes: it seems that the price of TNT-* is for the distribution media and documentation, and that you already have the right to copy it from a friend to run on your SPARCstation if you like. Right? This would certainly be the wisest way for Sun to encourage its use and propagation. When you order TNT, you get the media (a CD) and documentation, and a multi user site license, which means that anyone at your site can run it on their SPARCstation. It does not give you the right to photocopy the manual or give copies of the software to people from other sites, however. The part number is TNT-2.0-4-4-21, the price is $295, but if you're from a non-profit or educational institution, you should ask your Sun sales person about what kind of discount you can get. TNT 2.0 is much nicer than TNT 1.0 (the "experimental" toolkit distributed with Open Windows 1.0 and 2.0, aka NDE). It's simpler, faster, smaller, the naming is much more consistant, it's better factored into useful building blocks, with fewer abstract layers of intrinsics, and has an entirely rewritten input system (the services architecture) that is much more memory efficient and easier to use, and eliminates many race conditions. It has a more complete set of Open Look componants, that can display in 3D or 2D (so it's useable on a monochrome screen unlike certain other toolkits). It includes the wire service, a library for client/server communication, and the jot library, a very nice client side text package that supports variable width fonts, justified text, multiple server connections, multiple views of a single buffer, spans, searching, selections, drag'n'drop, etc. It also includes "gnt", a NeWS toolkit code generator for Open Windows Developer's Guide, that lets you build your windows and control panels using "direct manipulating" with DevGUIDE, and will generate the PostScript code, cps glue, and client side C code and stubs for your callback functions. In case you were wondering why you haven't heard much about the NeWS toolkit for so long, it's because we've been so busy getting it ready for people to use, instead of talking about it alot and pushing it out the door before it's done! -Don