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From: janssen@titan.sw.mcc.com (Bill Janssen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: InterViews -> NeWS port
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Date: 8 Mar 89 05:14:33 GMT
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In-reply-to: scp@sfi.santafe.edu ("Stephen C. Pope")

InterViews is a very nice system, but it is still just getting started.

I would suggest porting the Andrew Toolkit to NeWS, and using that.
Andrew is a system from the Information Technology Center at CMU,
distributed free by IBM and CMU, on the X11R3 tape.  It is an extensive
object-oriented system with hundreds of useful classes (including major
applications such as a mail system, a multi-media extensible editor,
a typescript, a graphical workstation monitor-console, a help tool)
that is based on a good model of a virtual window system, along with
two ports to real window systems, WM and X11.  All applications talk
in terms of the virtual window system, so that different window systems
can be used by the same application.  Code can be dynamically loaded,
so that the appropriate window system class can be selected at run-time.

You would have to provide the port to NeWS, but it would be a minor job
compared to the wealth of ready tools you would receive.  The sources
for Andrew are distributed on the X11R3 tape under contrib/toolkits/andrew.
You might want to join the mailing list "info-andrew@andrew.cmu.edu"
for more information (requests to "info-andrew-request@andrew.cmu.edu"),
or try sending mail to ???? (perhaps postmaster@andrew.cmu.edu?).

Bill