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From: sundvall@perrier.embnet.SE (Mats Sundvall)
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Subject: Re:  HELP! I need tool to make tools
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Date: 14 Jun 91 07:06:29 GMT
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	>and from export and other archive sites.  It requires a very small 
	>amount
	>of added code to understand the OLIT widget classes. 

I have got it. For OLIT! From a nice guy in the states!

	>The Wcl approach minimizes the impact of changes in the GUI layout on
	>the semantics of the application.

I agree!

	>>                                            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.
	>> > 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.

	>Well, you see, I was writing using verbs in the present tense:-)  I 
	>actually have work to do, not strategic plans to make.

	>Further, I HOPE that the post-processor for OLIT, when it arrives, 
	>will
	>take account of the Xt resource mechanism, or even the concepts of 
	>Wcl,
	>and be useful, instead of being so XView-centric as to do all GUI 
	>creation and value setting in procedural code.

	>Is anyone at Sun listening?
	 
Actually I talked to Sun Sweden about this a couple of weeks ago. Nothing was
really in the pipelines that they knew about. But he should give me a contact in US to talk to. I have not got that name yet.
The reason I called them was to get the spec for the next GIL version. As you
have already realized, as well as me and probably a lot of others as well (sun?) it should be very easy to make a postprocessor that parses the GIL file and writes the resource code. But if I am going to do it I want to start with the latest GIL spec.
But of course it would be much better if Sun did it. They are the pros :->
I am just a medical PhD :-<

	Mats Sundvall