Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!kksys!wd0gol!rathe!ian From: ian@rathe.cs.umn.edu (Ian Hogg) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: coupling Interviews and Motif Message-ID: <1991Apr25.181526.491@rathe.cs.umn.edu> Date: 25 Apr 91 18:15:26 GMT References: <1991Apr22.123447.573@aar.alcatel-alsthom.fr> Organization: Rathe, Inc. Lines: 46 In article <1991Apr22.123447.573@aar.alcatel-alsthom.fr> devarenn@aar.alcatel-alsthom.fr () writes: > >We are developping a C++ application and we have to use Motif >for the user interface part. >We will have to write editors for graphical objects. >We are thinking of using the graphical objects of >Interviews (the classes derived from graphic). The main problem >seems to be adapting the graphicblock class so that it becomes >a drawable Motif widget (e.g. XmDrawingArea) and no longer >an Interviews interactor. > >We would be glad to hear of any experience like this. Or of >any experience about using Motif in a C++ application > I think Quest Systems as a version of Interviews for sale that uses Motif. I don't know much about it but I think I would investigate Solbourn's OI toolkit that provides either Motif or Open Look look & feel. (Selectable at runtime). You can license it from AT&T. >*===============================================================* >* * >* Agnes Devarenne * >* * >* Alcatel-Alsthom Recherche >* Route de Nozay, * >* 91460 MARCOUSSIS FRANCE * >* * >* Tel. : (33) (1) 64.49.17.71, * >* mail : devarenn@aar.alcatel-alsthom.fr >*===============================================================* >* Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar * >* (S. Freud) * >*===============================================================* >-- >*===============================================================* >* * >* Agnes Devarenne * >* * -- Ian Hogg email: rathe!ian@cs.umn.edu ...!umn-cs!rathe!ian Rathe, Inc ianhogg@cs.umn.edu 366 Jackson Street phone: (612) 225-1401