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From: fgreco@fis1026.govt.shearson.com (Frank Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re:  HELP! I need tool to make tools
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Date: 13 Jun 91 13:11:23 GMT
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> uunet!ECE.UCSD.EDU!dlou (Dennis Lou) writes:
> > Is there a tool that helps me make tools by dragging and dropping?
> 
> For XView, on Suns you can get devGUIDE (I think they so spell it)
> pretty cheaply, which is about what it's worth.  You can paint things
> and spit out C to be modified.  This general way of working falls apart
> when you later want to modify the user interface after heavily 
> modifying the original  code templates.  (Note I'm not saying GUIDE is

	Minor correction:  devGUIDE does not produce C directly.  It 
	spits out a descriptive template in what is called GIL format 
	(Graphical Intermediate Language).  You postprocess this file
	with a source code generator to produce C or C++ or Lisp (or others)
	in any of several OPENLOOK toolkits.  We all know about "gxv" that
	produces C/XView from a .G (GIL) file;  Sun has made it no secret
	that they intend on producing other generators for OLIT and TNT.

	Also, at the last X Conference Sun tech folks described international
	versions of devGUIDE that were in the pipeline.

> Sun's support of OLIT doesn't extend to devGUIDE, even though
> there seems to be no technical reason.

	I wouldn't agree with the first phrase, but I would with the second.

	Frank G.