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From: scp@sfi.santafe.edu ("Stephen C. Pope")
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: InterViews -> NeWS port
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Date: 7 Mar 89 22:25:16 GMT
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Hi!  As I'm new to the mailing list, I hope I'm not asking
the *dumbest* question possible, but has anyone yet
"ported" InterViews to run under NeWS instead of X?

We're involved in developing a rather large application
utilizing window-based interactive menus and graphical
output.  Some rough NeWS code is already in place.
However, we would like to move our code to a wide
variety of machines, many of which do not run NeWS.
In order to keep the development work to a minimum,
we'd like to hide the window system behind an interface
such as InterViews providing the usual windows/Scenes,
Items/Interactors.

We are not looking for an exact duplication of X-styled
InterViews under NeWS, but rather a "functional equivalent"
- one way of getting stuff on the screen regardless of
the underlying window system, so we can stop worrying
about the window system we're running under.

Although I'm little familiar with InterViews/X, I do
recognize that the event handling is quite different
than in NeWS.  It does appear that with a thin layer
between InterViews and the client code, one can
completely hide events from the client, and replace it
with a psuedo-stream communications interface.

Thanks,

Stephen C. Pope
The Santa Fe Institute
scp@santafe.edu