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From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XView application without olcursor?
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Date: 12 Mar 90 12:28:54 GMT
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In article <132803@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> hvr@sun.UUCP (Heather Rose) writes:
|>Another question I have - is HP/Apollo, IBM, Apple and DEC going to 
|>provide OpenLook fonts standard with each of their X servers?
|
|Ask HP/Apollo, IBM, Apple and DEC.  I won't even try to guess what other
|companies might be releasing in future products.

I really didn't expect Sun to comment on this. I was just pointing out
that "selecting" the XView toolkit does involve some problems that a
program developer might not be aware of. I am developing a program for
use in our facility that I want to be user friendly. In order to say
the problem is solved, I must investigate and document how the end
user down-loads the fonts to all X servers (i.e. X Terminals,
Macintoshes, PC's, DECstations, VMS workstations, etc). 

|However, supporting both pixmaps and fonts will double the text space for
|rendering since you need to deal with either the case of a pixmap or a font 
|for each case.

As I said, I can specify a different font in the program. I cannot
specify a different cursor. There are only 20-30 cursors in the
olcursor "font", I believe. The extra code text would be small compared to the
size of the library.




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Bruce G. Barnett	barnett@crd.ge.com	uunet!crdgw1!barnett