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- From: jeff@visix.com (Jeff Barr)
- Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
- Subject: Re: interface library toward X-windows, MsWindows, Macintosh
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.031450.3642@sm.sony.co.jp>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 03:14:50 GMT
- Sender: onoe@sm.sony.co.jp (Atsushi Onoe)
- Distribution: fj
- Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA
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- Approved: michael@sm.sony.co.jp
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:55:18 GMT
- Message-Id: <BzMvs7.2tB@visix.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- References: <1992Dec14.114316.163297@ipgaix.unipg.it>, <6gobh76@Unify.Com>
- Sender: xpert-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu
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- >>>>> On 16 Dec 92 23:01:47 GMT, grp@Unify.com (Greg Pasquariello) said:
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- Greg> In article <1992Dec14.114316.163297@ipgaix.unipg.it>, glm@ipgaix.unipg.it (Gianfranco Galmacci) writes:
- >
- > I'm going to start a project which consists of a sw tool
- > to be used in different platforms( eg: X-windows, ms windows
- > and Macintosh). So I'm looking for some library which can
- > operate as an interface between a c-program and the various
- > windows environment avoiding to build a different program
- > for each standard. Does anyone knows something about
- > such a library?
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- Greg> Buon giorno, Gianfranco,
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- Greg> Take a look at Galaxy by Visix. Their library and development environment
- Greg> supports Open Look, Motif, MS-Windows and (supposedly) Mac. It is the richest,
- Greg> most extensible cross platform toolkit available today. It supports user
- Greg> interface objects (buttons, windows, text, sliders, lists, etc.), a path
- Greg> based drawing model (similar to postscript), file system and OS abstraction,
- Greg> a wonderful geometry manager, multibyte static and dynamic strings, multi
- Greg> style text, distributed application services (client/server, peer-to-peer,
- Greg> RPC, etc), hashed names, platform independent object storage, etc. If you
- Greg> need more information, you can contact Visix at:
-
- Greg> Visix Software, Inc,
- Greg> 11440 Commerce Park Drive
- Greg> Reston, Va 22091
- Greg> (703) 758-0233
-
- **** (703)-758-8230 will get you voice (Greg posted our FAX number) ****
- **** info@galaxy.com if you can't stand to leave your terminal ;-) ****
-
- Greg> And no, I don't take kickbacks from Visix or represent them in any way. I
- Greg> have just been looking for such a toolkit for years, they provide it, and
- Greg> I'm very happy with it.
-
- > Thanks a lot.
- > Gianfranco Galmacci
- > Dept. of Statistics
- > Perugia - ITALY
- > --
-
- Greg> --
- Greg> Greg Pasquariello grp@unify.com I've trained my chia pet to use
- Greg> Unify Corporation or my clapper...
- Greg> (916) 928-6258 ...!uunet!unify!grp
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- Jeff;
-
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