Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!haven!purdue!bu-cs!bloom-beacon!sol.UUCP!laurie
From: laurie@sol.UUCP (Laurie Clow)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: moving from NeWS to X
Message-ID: <8901102058.AA29312@sol.sag.uucp>
Date: 10 Jan 89 20:58:29 GMT
Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU
Organization: Science Applications International Corporation
Lines: 20

The division that I am in is thinking of porting a large amount of software
from NeWS to X.  If anybody has made this switch before I would appreciate
any points that you could give me.

Two questions have come up immediately.  Is there anything available to 
allow our postscript files to work with the X server?  The second question
is how can we implement rubber banding?  I have coded an obvious method 
where for each mouse moved event I restore what was under the current
rubber band lines;  do a copy area throung a clip mask to save what will be
under the new rubber band lines; then draw the new rubber band lines.  This
works but on our sun 3/60  the server's responses quickly fall behind the
mouse moved events.  We need something that will do a better job of keeping 
up with the user's actions.

Thank you in advance for any advice that you can give me.

Laurie Clow

UUCP:  {ucbvax!ucsd,seismo}!esosun!sol!laurie (Lauren Clow) (619) 546-6409
ARPA:  esosun!sol!laurie@seismo.css.gov