From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: CFC/CFI: XSysadmin Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1993 02:06:58 GMT
In article <291fir$efd@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> will@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de writes:
>While xview is nice, I think OI is much more real
>ObjectOriented - and it is more easy to provide two userinterfaces
>using the same functionalitycode with true objects...
XView's UIC library is an object-oriented C++ interface to XView, if you
prefer that to the C interface.
Always remember that XView has one major advantage over OI: it's freely
available, so it can be used on more systems than just Linux for Intel. (Of
course, whether the *BSD folks want anything to do with this is another issue
entirely...) Moreover, since the source is available, you have something to
work from other than a reference manual when developing a character-mode
version that uses the same API and equivalent semantics.
My own vote would probably be for Tcl/Tk, with a curses-based Tk replacement
for character mode terminals. I think John Ousterhout commented on the
possibility of such a Tk alternative being in a future Tk release --- but we
would probably have to roll our own rather than waiting. Still, Tk is freely
available source, so it's a lot easier than cloning OI's functionality would
be.
++Brandon
-- Brandon S. Allbery kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org "MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development." ---dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca