Re: Tk vs Motif
Grave Xavier (xavier@lapp.in2p3.fr)
Tue, 02 Sep 1997 10:49:19 +0200
Pasha Murat wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> this question is more conceptual than practical. There are certain advantages
> in using Tk as a window manager instead of Motif:
>
> - it is free (well, LessTif is also free);
> - it is simple;
> - there is a Windows port of Tk, so the application itself may not know
> about the difference between graphics interfaces between UNIX and Windows -
> this is what is called portability issue;
> - on UNIX it requires only libX11, but not libXt etc, so one doesn't link in
> alot of stuff he doesn't really need
> - there is an interface (Togl by Paul/Henderson) which allows to do GL rendering
> whithin Tk canvas
>
> Of course, in this case one should care about having Tk distributed along with
> his product - this doesn't sound very attractive...
>
> So the question is : if ROOT team ever considered using Tk as a window manager?
>
> Thanks, Pasha
Hello,
An other interface builder is xform.
It is also free and using x11.
It write some c code and have a Window designer.
The window designer able to create application very quickly.
http://bragg.phys.uwm.edu/xforms
Bye.
Xavier Grave
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