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From: zee@fwi.uva.nl (Daniel M. van der Zee (I89))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.windows.ms.programmer,comp.windows.x
Subject: need information about XVT
Summary: some questions about XVT
Keywords: XVT x-development
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Date: 17 Jun 91 13:00:07 GMT
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About two weeks ago i posted a message about x-developing the same app for
mac, x & ms  windows. I got a lot of replies suggesting i should take a look at
XVT. The only thing i know about XVT so far is that it is a 
collection of header files and libraries that create a layer between the
operating system of various GUIs and my program. 

What i fear is that to use XVT i have to learn to program yet another operating
system from the ground up. (I well remember the horror of trying to understand 
the first three issues of Inside Macintosh). I would like to have some more info
about XVT before actually looking at it myself.
If you have some time left and you've used XVT yourself i would appreciate 
some answers to the questions below
(for most questions a simple Yes or No will do):

1  Is XVT just a collection of "low-level" functions that translate the params
   to the OS its running on?

2  Does XVT contain a large class library for speeding up application 
   development? (if so how does it compare to MacApp)
   Is it good? (does XVT speed up application development for applications
   that will have to run on one platform only?)

3  Does XVT cover more than the parts all GUIs have in common or does it try
   to add good things from one GUI to the other?

4. Has printing be implemented?
   How hard is printing (compared to mac)

5. Has a text-edit object been implemented?
   Can it handle multiple fonts in one object?
   What is the limit to the number of chars in such an object?
   Are there any other limitations?

6. Are resource definition files translated to all GUIs?

7. What are the strengths of XVT?
   
8. Is there something you cannot do with XVT?

9. What compilers does XVT work with?

(Please excuse my english and ignore my spelling errors)
Thank you very much,

Daniel van der Zee
Student Computer Science
University Of Amsterdam
The Netherlands
e-mail: zee@fwi.uva.nl