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From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: widget creation philosophy
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Date: 30 Sep 88 20:54:02 GMT
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> Why wasn't xbiff designed with a pixmap widget, for instance?

Because there wasn't one when xbiff was rewritten for X11 (fall of last year).
Quick and dirty hack?  Guilty as charged.


> Why isn't there a widget that implements a XImage?

Most likely because nobody has written one and given it back yet.


> I'm no widget insider, but it seems that we have widgets with too much
> special purpose functionality.

Undoubtedly.  

The Athena widgets are simply a sample set (if I may so slander them), not a
definitive one.