From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) Subject: Re: LINUX and OSF Software Date: Sat, 1 May 1993 23:25:24 GMT
>> cflatter@nrao.edu
>>Implementing a
>>Motif work-alike from the specs would be mostly grunt work --- an
>>awful lot of grunt work. The biggest problem with this approach
>>is that some third-party Motif widgets rely on undocumented internal features
>>of the OSF/Motif toolkit.
There is no Motif spec, per se. There is the style guide which will
get you kinda sorta most of the way there. There is the OSF
implementation, which isn't exactly what the style guide says it is,
and there is the fact that the style guide is written to match the
implementation, not the other way around. And that's just the look
and feel. I have no idea if the API is better documented or not.
All in all, it is very hard to write a 100% compliant Motif toolkit
from the ground up. Not impossible, but very hard.
Warner
-- Warner Losh imp@boulder.parcplace.COM ParcPlace Boulder I've almost finished my brute force solution to subtlety.