On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Michael Lankton wrote:
There are two good reasons to study gtk instead. A) Motif is not gpl'ed and thus will eventually go the way of the dinosaurs
I seriously doubt that. Look at who is backing Motif and CDE. Also, take a look at the number of machines on which Motif is available today. Another reason is companies developing application software would use Motif because they know it is supported by a known group of people -- the company that supplied the package, which on most other UNIX machines would also be the hardware supplier. They have someone to blame when something fails. Also, since they are developing applications for a certain customer or a certain group of customers, the customer will know exactly who the application company is blaming too. And chances are they are more understanding of the situation and thus, are more willing to work with the application company to come up with a feasible solution. Comparing the number of companies that are developing applications using commercial packages to those that use GPLed packages, the former are many times more than the latter for exactly the same reason. One very good example industry is the geophysics industry. This is a very computing application intensive field. How many of them are developing using gcc, Mesa or Lesstif or Gtk? I don't like to say this here, but what is the percentage of Linux usage in such an industry?
B) Tcl/Tk is nice, however every time a new version comes out it breaks the existing apps and they have to be recoded. Stupid.
Gtk is gpl'ed, rapidly nearing maturity, massively embraced by the linux development community and has the power to be like any interface you want it to be with it's forthcoming theme support. Just my $.02
hongfeng wrote:
there are many good books guide to program with X/Motif.
for fast develop GUI, Tcl/Tk is an excellent choice, pls read the book from O'Reilly: "Tcl/Tk Tools" written by Mark Harrison;
for tricks and style on programming with Motif, pls read the book from O'Reilly: "Motif Tools" written by David Flanagan.
There 2 books can give you all the tips you need now. Pls look them at <A HREF="http://www.oreilly.com"><A HREF="http://www.oreilly.com</A">http://www.oreilly.com</A</A>>
Rgds, Frederic
Steven T. Hatton ??????
I am writing a little symbolic logic processor as an intellectual exercise. I would like to create a GUI interface to this. Can anybody tell me what tools and libs I need in order to create X/motif programs?
TIA,
Steve
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