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From: ssroy@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Steve Scot Roy)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: XUI
Message-ID: <7935@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 24 Apr 89 19:34:56 GMT
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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Is anyone out there using the DEC User Interface Language and the
associated toolkits?  I am trying to do something that ought to be
simple.

I just want to put up a window and be able to use Xlib routines on it.
None of the examples they send do this, and none of the documentation
mentions it.  Now, I know how to do this with Athena widgets -- use
XtWindow(widget) to get a window and related calls to set up a graphics
context and so on.  When I try this on a variety of widgets in the X
User Interface (XUI) it just screams and dies.

Has anybody seen how to do this?  Is there something special I need to
do?  Does anybody have an example of how to do this?  Is this an effect
of the crosstalk between Xt and Xaw that people have been mentioning
lately?

Thanks in advance.

More generally, in the athena widgets, the HP widgets and now the DEC
widgets, no mention is ever made in the documentation of how to use the
Xlib routines in widgets.  Do the designers of the widgets think this is
such a rare thing to do that it is not worth explaining how to draw a
line from point A to point B in a widget?  Let me take this opportunity
to say that I don't think it is, and that it would be so easy to include
a very simple example or two in the documentaton to relieve a great deal
of frustration for the people using these systems.

steve roy
ssr@courant.princeton.edu