Colin Carter wrote:
Thanks to Synthetic Cartoonz
for help to date. I have a direction dilemma and would like opinions.
I have some excellent books, such as Douglas Young's "X Window System Programming and Applications with Xt" but it should have its title extended to include "... and with Athena and hp Widgets" This has been my problem: although it is a book on Xt it quietly throws in a command like ... XtCreateManagedWidget("rc", XwrowColWidgetClass, ...) and I spend frustrating hours trying to find an include file which contains XwrowColWidgetClass Ahhhhh!
I think that I have to re-think my strategy: X11 is freely available I have Xt is freely available I have Xm motif, commercial, I do not have Xaw Athena ? I have Xw hp I do not have Qt commercial, excessive for my purposes
Part of my problem has been my faith in these books. They read well, but, in spite of pretending to be books about X11 and Xt they quietly use Xaw, Xm, and Xw and I struggle to get the same code to work on my machine.
Any suggestions? Regards, Colin PS: for AMD64
Part of your problem (& definitely NOT your fault) is that some of these books were written some years back by/for people using SGI's (for example) or SUNs which had Motif onboard by default. I think the OpenMotif route mentioned elsewhere would be your best bet. I am using an older version (as I mentioned earlier) with no problems. Are you writing code for your own in-house use or to sell ? That would complicate the decision .... -- William A. Mahaffey III --------------------------------------------------------------------- Remember, ignorance is bliss, but willful ignorance is LIBERALISM !!!!