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- From: baileyc@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Christopher R. Bailey)
- Subject: Re: Portable GUI Libs...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.080232.21648@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- The portable gui lib we are using is called XVT Portability Toolkit by XVT.
- We are using it to meet our senior project requirements (established by the
- company we are working for) of supporting MS-DOS (MS-Windows), UNIX (X windows,
- Motif/DEC/SGI/AIX), and Mac. In other words our product has to run on and
- look the same in layout (although it will look like the native environment) on
- all platforms.
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- The code is completely (99%) portable. The only thing that is platform
- specific is things like icons and bitmaps, which is unavoidable. However, we
- write all our code on MS Windows workstations, and just go over to a UNIX box
- and type make (our own makefile), and boom it compiles no problem!
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- The only drawback I've seen so far is that you can't have pull-right or
- cascading menus. This is because these aren't available on a Mac, sort of
- like enforced portability.
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- It seems to have most things people want, general drawing functions, some
- cool windows (eg note windows, etc), and we are using it with C++. You can
- use it with C or C++, they provide a sort of template I guess for C++ work.
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- XVT Software
- Box 18750
- Boulder, CO 80308
- (303) 443-4223 or (303) 443-0969 (Fax)
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- Current version is 3.0, supported on MS Windows (Borland, MS, Zortech
- compilers), Macintosh, DEC, SUN, IBM, SGI, and maybe more UNIX boxes.
-
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