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From: erc@pai.UUCP (Eric F. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Multiplatform considerations
Keywords: Motif
Message-ID: <1759@pai.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 91 01:57:56 GMT
Organization: Boulware Technologies, Inc., Burnsville, MN
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Michael A Guttman (guttman@mashie.ece.jhu.edu) writes:
>We're going to develop a package with a GUI and we need to support
>Sparc, IBM RISC and SGI workstations.  We would like to use a UI
>builder program to cut development time.

Application builders exist for both Motif and Open Look. There seems
to be more available for Motif.

Don't expect application builders to do everything, though. There is
still a lot of work in creating commercial-grade software, even if
you use an application builder.

>First one basic question:
>Is MOTIF just a window manager, or does it also fall into the toolkit
>category? 

Motif includes a window manager (mwm), a style guide, a toolkit (C library)
and a prototyping language (called UIL). The Motif toolkit sits on
top of the Xt Intrinsics, much like OLIT (Open Look Intrinsics Toolkit),
and is much different, therefore, from XView (which does not use the Xt
Intrinsics, but uses C functions that look a lot like SunView functions).

Motif is generally supported on more platforms than XView. The choice
of which toolkit is best for you is one of taste--beauty is in the
eye of the beholder and all that.

>	Mike
>	guttman@mashie.ece.jhu.edu

Hope this helps,
-Eric

P.S., Under separate cover, I'll email you a list of Motif application 
builders that was recently posted to comp.windows.x.motif


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