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From: neil@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Neil Haddley)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Smalltalk in an X Window
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Date: 21 Dec 89 14:51:26 GMT
Reply-To: neil@dcl-cs.UUCP (Neil Haddley)
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
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Smalltalk running in an XWindow

Although ParcPlace have provided a way to run smalltalk in a sunView
window on a Sun workstation we have a problem. It looks likely that our
future research prototypes will have to be demonstated in an XWindows
environment.

Can any vendor provide us with a Smalltalk which will run in an
XWindows environment, as a window, on a Sun?
 
If not what development practices would people suggest. Our experience
with Smalltalk has been very positive. We have no wish to move away
from our practice of developing software engineering tools using Smalltalk,
but if we can't deliver the results ?

I am aware of attempts which have been made to automatically translate
Smalltalk source into Objective-C, but I find it hard to believe that
graphical tools writen in smalltalk are easy to translate in Objective-C
with the corresponding X libaries (even by hand).

If there is a response I will summarize to the net

Thanks in advance.

Neil Haddley

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