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From: fischer@arisia.Xerox.COM (Ronald A. Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Sun's OPENLOOK vs AT&T's OPENLOOK
Summary: Portability across what?
Message-ID: <1074@arisia.Xerox.COM>
Date: 10 Jun 89 21:55:07 GMT
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Organization: Xerox PARC
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If your goal is portability you need to answer "Across which
platforms?"

If you are planning to port to OS-2/PM, Windows and Macs as well as
UNIX/X you might consider the toolkit veneer being offered by some
company out here in San Jose (I believe, will followup with their
name).  It costs about $595 and allows portability across those
platforms.

If UNIX is your only concern you may want to go ahead and use the Sun
OPEN LOOK toolkit.  It is implemented in a rather nice object oriented
fashion (as a C style, not in a special language) with a small set of
operations like "create," "destroy," "get/set property," etc.
Previous comment on this list indicated it was less buggy than the
AT&T one (Sun's is NOT based on Xt) The Sun OPEN LOOK toolkit will be
part of the next X distribution (read: "free source code").  It has
been claimed that it will show up on the MIT X system ftp server "real
soon now."

IMHO, given this kind of distribution and portability I think that
OPEN LOOK may become quite popular very quickly.

(ron)