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- From: matt@centerline.com (Matt Landau)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
- Subject: Re: Alternatives to Xt based toolkits? (Was: Re: SunSoft Windows Positioning)
- Message-ID: <1e8m5pINNne4@armory.centerline.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:35:53 GMT
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- In <1992Nov16.152506.9523@cas.org> lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes:
-
- >In article <1e0grvINNije@armory.centerline.com> matt@centerline.com (Matt Landau) writes:
- >:But on the brighter side, maybe this will get people to take a second
- >:look at other non-widget based toolkits. There are a lot of good ideas
- >:out there, and a lot of interesting implementations. Perhaps if the
-
- >Okay, what are some of these alternatives that are viable - i.e. development
- >is continuing?
-
- Well, my personal interest at this point tends to be in multi-platform
- and/or multi-GUI toolkits (first because I think the look-and-feel wars
- are technically and politically stupid, and second because I think the
- GUI standardization efforts are very premature given how primitive the
- state-of-the-art is right now ... kind of like doctors standardizing on
- leeches and exorcism).
-
- Among the more interesting efforts I know of would be such things as OI
- (aka ViewCenter) and Visix's Galaxy (which shows promise of being a pretty
- cool development environment, if it ever ships in volume).
-
- There are many other products around, including InterViews in its various
- guises (the Stanford distribution isn't suitable for production work, but
- the HP InterViews Plus product and the Quest ObjectViews version might be),
- XVT (the subject of another premature standization effort :-), Aspect,
- Neuron Data's OIT, etc.
-
- All of these are ongoing commerical ventures, none of them Xt-based.
- --
- Matt Landau Waiting for a flash of enlightenment
- matt@centerline.com in all this blood and thunder
-