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From: dmg@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Geary)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Is NeWS UseABLE?
Message-ID: <2135@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 1 Aug 88 18:24:06 GMT
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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    I will soon be writing a graphical interface to Unix for Sun
workstations.  Recently I received NeWS, and have been playing with
it for about a week or so.

    I'm trying to figure out whether or not NeWS is mature enough to
for such a project. 

    I'd like to know what bugs you have found with NeWS, and what
you like/dislike about it.  Here's a summary of my impressions so
far:

Pros:

1)  The postscript language, along with the object-oriented features
in NeWS give a very powerful development tool for implementing user
interfaces.

2)  NeWS code, since it runs via an interpreter appears to be *easy*
to debug.

Cons:

1)  The whole thing seems sluggish to me.  I thought that SunView
window manipulation was slow compared to my Amiga, but NeWS seems
even worse than SunView.  Right now, I'm running vi inside of a
VT102 emulator (psterm??), and I can outtype it at will.

2)  If I run NeWS inside of SunView, by "setenv FRAMEBUFFER x y w h"
(BTW, thanks to all who replied to my previous posting on this), I
don't get a window, I just get a non-sizeable area of the screen
that I can only run NeWS in - yuck.  If I run SunView application
inside of NeWS, I get an unsightly border around the SunView
application.  I'd like to be able to just run a NeWS application
inside of SunView, in a window that looks and behaves just like a
SunView window.


Anybody else care to add to this discussion?  NeWS seems *neat* to
me, but I'm unsure of it's maturity.  (Actually, I'm unsure of my
maturity too).

Thanx.

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