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From: PJS@GROUCH.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott)
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Subject: Re: Switching Widget sets
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Date: 17 May 89 21:20:07 GMT
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UEJIOWH%ASLCLU.decnet@crdgw1.ge.com writes:

>Just read the message from Reha which stated that the switching from widget
>sets will be difficult.  My experience has been from Athena to HP and
>am wondering if the above statement is true.

>We plan to switch to OSF Motif which is based on the HP and DEC Widget sets.

>How difficult is it to make this jump from the Athena or the public domain
>HP widget set?

I haven't performed any switches myself so my information is second-hand.
However, it is a concern of mine since it's a task I might very well have
to perform in the future, depending on how tedious it is.  At DECUS in
Atlanta, I asked several people who had every right to answer the
question accurately, how difficult it would be to switch between the DEC
Widget set and any other widget set.  The answer I got in each case was
that it was at best non-trivial and at worst slower than re-coding from
scratch.  It was difficult enough that none of them had previously seriously
considered doing it.

Peter Scott (pjs@grouch.jpl.nasa.gov)