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From: jrg@Apple.COM (John R. Galloway)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X Application writing aSSistant, any ideas?
Keywords: XASS, X, application assistant
Message-ID: <11002@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 25 May 88 16:38:35 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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	In writing applications for X10.4 using the Xtlib toolkit (I assume
that much of this will hold true for X11 as well) I found one of the
more tedious aspects to be setting up all the arg lists and making all
the XtCreate..XtSet... etc. calls just to get things set up.  So what
about an X-Application-aSStiant that allows the graphical aspects of
an application to be specified graphically.  This would be a sort of paint
like utility, but with very limited abilities.  Place buttons, labels,
specify border thicknesses, fonts, call back routine names, etc.  the output
would be (C or other) language fragments (modules? routines? include files?).
A) How useful do you think such would be?  In just beginning to look at
	the X11 docs it has become clear that I have not been using the
	resource data base nearly enough (if at all).  If you write
	your application "correctly" would such an assistant still be
	useful?
B) Just how far could this notion be taken?
C) Is anyone already working on such a project?

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apple!jrg	John R. Galloway, Jr.       contract programmer, San Jose, Ca

These are my views, NOT Apple's, I am a GUEST here, not an employee!!