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From: chdana@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Charles H. Dana)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X tools for building X applications
Message-ID: <10949@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 3 May 89 01:21:48 GMT
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Reply-To: chdana@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Charles H. Dana)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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PJS@GROUCH.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott) writes:

>After seeing a demo of the NeXT machine today, I realized that what I
>could really use is a graphical tool for building X programs - something
>that would let me pick a widget from a list, say, design resources, set
>window attributes, etc, and let me specify placement of objects by dragging
>them into position rather than using pixel coordinates.  Then it would
>write the code.  Is anyone working on *anything* like this?

Some students and I are working on such a tool here.  While it is not so
'mysterious' as the commercial ones cloaked in non-disclosure agreements
that were mentioned in other followups to the original posting, it also is not
yet quite ready to release out to the cold cruel world (even as a beta release). 
I think by this summer we can have something for people to play with.  I
have been using it here for three quarters in a course on window systems 
and it is improving rapidly.

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