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From: beau1029@mstr.hgc.edu (donald beaudry)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif,comp.windows.x,comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.ms.programmer,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Neuron Data's Open Interface
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Date: 26 May 91 04:40:51 GMT
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Neuron Data has recently released an interface builder for Motif, Open Look,
MS Windows, OS/2 PM, and Macintosh.  They claim that you get the superset 
of all "widgets" on all platforms.  I have seen a demo and it is most 
impressive.  Wait - it gets better...

You also get every look and feel on every platform!  With the click of
a button, your Open Look application running on a Sun will redraw itself
to look like it is running on a Mac.  You can get MS Windows look and feel
under X, or on the Mac.

The quality of the widget set is impressive.  They have created a 
virtual graphics machine that runs on all platforms.  Using this VGM, 
they developed their own widget set formed from the superset of all
widgets on all the aforementioned platforms.   That means that you get
tear-aways and modeless menus under Motif, a multi-column list that
looks very impressive, etc.  Instead of relying on Xt and Widget sets,
the VGM relies solely on Xlib on X platforms, and draws its own interface
components on other platforms.

This was very noticable on the Mac, running 6xx Mac OS.  The application
built with Open Interface had the System 7 3-d buttons.  And with a
click, the application redrew itself on the Mac with a Windows 3
look.

This product seems like a cure-all, perhaps too good to be true, but
from what I have seen, it appears to be real.

I have only seen the product roll out so far.  Has anyone used this
product?  Impressions?