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From: andrew@resam.dk (Leif Andrew Rump)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XView Toolkit
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.090219.28243@resam.dk>
Date: 24 Jun 91 09:02:19 GMT
References: <9106180734.AA04888@delphi.uucp> <1991Jun18.161315@wsl.dec.com> <1991Jun19.052126.9204@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> <537@bksmel.oz.au>
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In <537@bksmel.oz.au> cwy@bksmel.oz.au (Chris Young) writes:
>Also, I STRONGLY disagree that Xview is easier to use than Motif ...
>you obviously have done more Xview - I find it the other way around as
>I have done more Motif. You should be more careful making sweeping
>statements on the net unless you are asking to be flamed !

What about some cool facts? How does a simple Motif program look like?
This XView program creates a window with a demo text:

#include <xview/xview.h>
#include <xview/frame.h>
#include <xview/panel.h>

#define	X_SIZE	200
#define	Y_SIZE	100

main(argc, argv)
int	argc;
char	*argv[];
{
  Frame	frame;
  Panel	panel;

  xv_init(XV_INIT_ARGC_PTR_ARGV, &argc, argv, NULL);

  frame = (Frame)xv_create(NULL, FRAME,
	FRAME_LABEL,	argv[0],
	XV_WIDTH,	X_SIZE,
	XV_HEIGHT,	Y_SIZE,
    NULL);

  panel = (Panel)xv_create(frame, PANEL, NULL);

  (void)xv_create(panel, PANEL_MESSAGE,
	PANEL_LABEL_STRING,	"Hello World",
    NULL);

  xv_main_loop(frame);
}

I know this program doesn't do anything put it's easy to understand!
I Motif equally easy to understand and what happens when things get
a bit more complicated? My experience with XView is that some things
is very simple and other things is rather complicated - any followups?

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