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From: bill@polygen.uucp (Bill Poitras)
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Subject: Re: SUMMARY: need information about XVT
Keywords: XVT summary x-dev
Message-ID: <1164@redford.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 91 18:53:46 GMT
References: <1991Jun24.150205.21341@fwi.uva.nl>
Reply-To: bill@redford.UUCP (Bill Poitras(X258))
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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In article <1991Jun24.150205.21341@fwi.uva.nl> zee@fwi.uva.nl (Daniel M. van der Zee (I89)) writes:
>>5. Has a text-edit object been implemented?
>Yes, text edit has been implemented. I believe you can only have
>one font per object. While I can't find it explicitly in the doc,
>I almost bet that since XVT TextEdit is based (on the Mac) on Mac
>TextEdit, you have the same limitations you would have in the Mac
>Toolbox.

I can guarentee that you would lose that bet.  XVT has created its own
TextEdit object.  In fact you can license the source from them for just
the textedit object.  I talked to them in March and they considered using
the native toolkit's textedit object as the basis for their, but for now
that is not true.
>
>>6. Are resource definition files translated to all GUIs?
>Yes
One more thing to add: the URL resource system is capable of converting
native resources into URL, for coversion to another format.  e.g. design
dialogs on the Mac, run them on Motif.
>======
>
>>8. Is there something you cannot do with XVT?
>Font handling leaves something to be desired, so I wouldn't try to write a
>word processor using XVT.
This has been improved in XVT 2.1 on most platforms.  This new feature is
called the 'font mapper'.  What you do is describe the font (face, style,
size, best font for printer or screen) and the function returns the closest 
font that it can find.  This is much like the logical font handling in
Windows.  The feature exists on Mac, Windows, and Presentation Manager.


>
>On Windows, Microsoft C version 5.10  (If there are later versions,
>it may work on them but the manual I have only lists that version)

Also Borland C++ for XVT/CH, and I don't know if it out yet, but XVT/Win
is going to have Borland C++ compatibility too.



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