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From: jdg@elmgate.UUCP (Jeff Gortatowsky CUST)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Contribs under X11R3
Message-ID: <1054@elmgate.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 89 01:06:51 GMT
Reply-To: jdg@elmgate.UUCP (Jeff Gortatowsky CUST)
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Organization: Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY
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I guess I should be very sorry that X gods decided to remove
the auto make facility for the contrib directories, since they worked
on my Sun 3/160 under R2.  Anyways the problem. I'm an X11 novice
programmer who wanted to create my first application using
"someone's" toolkit or widgets, at least just to get started.

I tried making the HP widgets.  It blew up.  I tried the Xr11
toolkit, the make on that blew up.  I tried the Andrew toolkit,
yup, it blew up too.   I'm not talking way into the make procedures
either.  I mean most blew up with files not found, or syntax/semantic
problems within a file or two of getting started!

The core release built just dandy.  What did they do?  Release the
contrib's without even attempting a make?  How does on go about
makeing the major toolkits and widget packages under R3?  Hand edit
every dang file?   If anyone can give me pointer or two about this
I would be grateful (especially the HP widgets (HP you there?)).

Also why did they change the includes so drastically?  No cursorfont.h,
no Misc.h, etc...  Al the contribs use these.

Thank you for the replies, I'm just tring to create my first X11
program using the building blocks other have made so to get a flavor
for programming under X11.  I shudder at thought of haveing to
build my own classes under the Athena widgets when others worked
so hard to create higher level widgets.

		Jeff


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Jeff Gortatowsky-Eastman Kodak Company  .....rochester!kodak!elmgate!jdg
(use uuhosts or such to find path to rochester)
Eastman Kodak makes film not comments.  Therefore these comments are mine
not theirs.