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From: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: HP WIDGETS AVAILABLE NOW
Message-ID: <1730@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 30 Sep 88 19:12:28 GMT
References: <15020661@hpcvlx.HP.COM> <34700001@deep-thought>
Reply-To: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Organization: Daisy Systems Corp., Mountain View, Ca.
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In article <34700001@deep-thought> bob@deep-thought.prime.com writes:
>The README file claims the HP Widget set compiled and ran on a Sun.
>Has anyone been able to get it to work on *their* Sun?

We have the HP widgets (XwCC) mostly running on our Sun 386i (SunOS
4.0).  I think we had to hack the makefiles a little to remove the HP
dependencies, but there were no other problems.  Most of the demos work
as advertised.  Some of them seem to go into infinite geometry
negotiation loops, infinitely resizing themselves.

I wrote a couple of test programs, using only the basic composite
widgets.  There are quite a few more widgets in XwCC than in the Xaw
library.  SunView programmers will like the "valuator" widget which is
similar to the SunView integer slider and the "workspace" widget whch
is similar to the SunView canvas (allowing you to quickly hack Xlib
code into Xt programs).  Also, many of the widgets have more callbacks
that the equivalent Xaw widgets.  For example, the command button
widget has button up and button down callbacks.

What do other people think about this widget set?  I think it was
nice of HP to contribute it and hope that they continue to support it
in future releases of X.

Ken Lee
Daisy Systems Corp., Interactive Graphics Tools Dept.
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