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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: need information about XVT
Keywords: XVT x-development
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.173316.18566@alphalpha.com>
Date: 19 Jun 91 17:33:16 GMT
References: <1991Jun17.130007.16913@fwi.uva.nl> <1991Jun18.205101.28425@colorado.edu>
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In article <1991Jun18.205101.28425@colorado.edu> thompsog@spot.Colorado.EDU (THOMPSON GEOFF) writes:
>by accessing the native window sytem components of XVT objects. Hence, the
>term "Extensible." In general, the full capabilties of the native window
>system are available in non-portable ways, including handling all native
>system events.
However, manager-type widgets like forms, rowcolums, tables... are not
accessable, unless quite a bit has changed since I last looked at XVT.
In my mind this toss out one of the best features of Xt.
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