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From: jlevy@arisia.Xerox.COM (Jacob Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Sets of Widgets for X11
Summary: When? How? What?
Message-ID: <652@arisia.Xerox.COM>
Date: 13 Mar 89 08:01:46 GMT
Reply-To: jlevy.pa@xerox.com (Jacob Levy)
Organization: Xerox PARC
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Could some kind soul answer these questions for me? I am in the
decision process of writing a major application which will use
one of the C widget-sets for X. I am currently evaluating Athena
and the HP X Widgets. My worry about using the HP widgets is that
support may disappear at any time with future releases of X. Can
anyone reassure me on this? How does one get documentation (at
least..)  for the OSF/Motif set of widgets? How does one get to
actually use these widgets? I also heard rumors about a supposed
set of widgets that DEC is promoting/preparing... Are there any
other sets than the above?  How does one get them (are they PD)?

The confusion in this field is hampering decision making
processes. If you have any information that will help me make a
sane and (possibly) sound decision about which set of widgets to
base my application on, I'd much appreciate your help. Important
factors are availability, a comparison of features and future
support. I will even summarise your replies to the net, as a
return service :-)

Thanks, --Jacob