Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!trwind!venice!ries From: ries@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Motif is a proprietary standard Message-ID: <253@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> Date: 10 Jan 90 21:48:58 GMT References: <18270.631494208@hplnpm> Reply-To: ries@venice.sedd.trw.com (Marc Ries) Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 27 In article <18270.631494208@hplnpm> mayer%hplnpm@HPLABS.HP.COM (Niels P. Mayer) writes: > >From: kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) [..] ->> Or get DecWindows, which is incorporating Motif into their next ->> release (or so I've heard) or HPUX which comes with Motif (more hearsay?) ->I can't comment about DecWindows, but HPUX 7.0 is shipping right now and ->comes with everything in Motif 1.0 except for UIL. (Excluding UIL was a ->Good Thing IMHO, since it is offal.) -> ->Motif on HPUX is definitely real -- An HP customer that is using my WINTERP ->rapid prototyping environment for Motif applications (see X11r4 contrib) ->wrote me that he received his HPUX 7.0 tapes just the other day. Is there a reason why MOTIF (at least the version we have from HP) does not actually have a HELP widget like the one from the DEC Widget set? Every thing in the programmers guide and the contributed progs show this nice help button -- that goes no where?! Since alot of the DEC Widgets stuff came over with MOTIF, where the HELPWIDGET stuff?! Is it planned for a future release or never or? -- Marc Ries ries@venice.sedd.trw.com (ARPA) somewhere!trwind!venice!ries (UUCP) #include