From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: GNAT, LINUX, KDE
Date: 1999/11/23
Date: 1999-11-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1999Nov23.091743.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrn83jogj.1mn.aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk
In article <slrn83jogj.1mn.aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk>, aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk (Aidan Skinner) writes:
> If you want to write graphical applications for X-Windows then you
> need a binding to either X itself (ie. Xlib), or a toolkit (ie. Motif,
> GTK, QT etc.).
>
> X-Windows is a scary and mystical place, where men are men and Orcs
> have 18 HD each[1]. Don't go there.
While I don't do raw graphics (plotting splines in a window),
the combination of X-Windows and Motif is quite reasonable for
doing GUIs. I recently added a GUI to a new program that would
otherwise have been only text-based. The process was relatively
painless and the results were much better than the text-based
interface (which still exists for systems on which X-Windows
is not installed).
Larry Kilgallen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-11-23 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-22 0:00 GNAT, LINUX, KDE Alfred Hilscher
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Fraser
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-11-23 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-11-22 0:00 Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1999-11-25 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-23 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-11-24 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1999-11-25 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Tarjei Jensen
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-28 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Tarjei Jensen
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Jeffrey L Straszheim
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Tarjei Jensen
1999-11-28 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-11-25 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-11-25 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-11-23 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-11-22 0:00 Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
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