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From: wood%lavc3.dnet@smithkline.COM (Bill Wood, SB Pharmaceuticals R&D, 215-270-5163)
Subject: Re: X11 Windows 3.0 comparisons
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Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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Date: 6 May 91 13:52:39 GMT
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In article <261@picker.picker.com>, kobetitsch@picker.picker.com (harry 
kobetitsch) writes:
>A heated battle rages on in my work group. I would like 
>some pros and cons of X (including Motif) and Windows 3.0.
>I would like facts to back up an argument on either side.
>
>Thanks in advance!

I've been using Motif and Decwindows for several years now, and while I 
appreciate the flexibility and capability, I have recently become enamored of MS 
windows 3.0.  The other day I was building an application with an MS Windows 
application building tool which is every bit as flexible and powerful as, say, 
UIMX.  I needed bitmaps of a deck of cards for my application.  I was able to 
grab the card deck that comes in MS Windows Solitaire using the following steps:

	1) I brought up the following applications:
		a) solitaire
		b) clipboard
		c) macro recorder
		d) MS Windows Paint
		e) SNAGIT, a public domain screen capture program
		f) a small app that I wrote which dumps the clipboard to a
			bitmap (.BMP) file

	2) I started the macro recorder

	3) I selected "deal" from solitaire

	4) I used SNAGIT to select a dealt card into the clipboard

	5) I pasted the clipboard into MS Paint

	6) I cleaned up the edges of the card with the eraser

	7) I put the cleaned up card back in the clipboard

	8) I dumped the clipboard to a .BMP file

	9) I ended the macro recording, then started the macro running in
	   continuous loop mode while I sat back and watched!

How hard is this to do in X, especially pasting color bitmaps between apps and
automating the whole process?  I believe that MS Windows provides a rich, 
standard environment, and that as it becomes available on faster machines and 
richer operating systems, the flood of applications for it will be amazing.


- Bill			wood@smithkline.com