Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!decwrl!shelby!neon!loan From: loan@Neon.Stanford.EDU (James P. Loan) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Toolkits, Widget sets Message-ID: <1990Jan4.210520.15646@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: 4 Jan 90 21:05:20 GMT Sender: USENET News System Distribution: usa Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Lines: 26 I've got a beginner's question about toolkits/widget-sets, but it sounds like others may want to know too... There's been a lot of talk recently about which toolkits are best to use, and I'm still confused as to what a toolkit is. I thought that a toolkit was a set of intrinsics for building widget sets plus a template for structuring widgets, but _not a widget set_. A widget set, then, is, as the name implies, a set of widgets built on a certain toolkit. If this is the case, then I think I can name four toolkits: Xt, InterViews, Andrew, Clue. And the following are widget sets: Motif, OPENLOOK, Xaw, Xw, SUIT, DECWindows, and Xcu. I know that Xaw, Xw, SUIT, and Xcu are based on Xt, but what about the others, especially Motif? One of my goals might be to get Motif (R4) on a Personal IRIS. Is this possible? Straightening me out in this matter would be GREATLY appreciated. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Peter Loan | | loan%alice.stanford.edu@sunrise.stanford.edu | | loan%neon.stanford.edu | | ** I weel not buy this tobacconists, it is scratched ** | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------