From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52e3ce50afd2027e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ted Dennison Subject: Re: gui tools Date: 1999/12/29 Message-ID: <386A3B62.3DE7C2CB@telepath.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 566153394 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <199912291221.HAA19458@kg0c61.csc.com> X-Accept-Language: en,pdf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: Abuse Role , We Care X-Trace: newshog.newsread.com 946485893 216.14.8.33 (Wed, 29 Dec 1999 11:44:53 EST) Organization: Telepath Systems (telepath.com) MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 11:44:53 EST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Keene wrote: > Sorry, I guess I did leave out that little piece of information. The O/S will > be unix, but the development platform and the target will be different. The > development platform will be Solaris 7 and the target will be HPUX. > > > From: Greg Keene > > Looking for information on a good GUI development tool. Both those platforms support Motif. If the Motif widget set will fill your needs (basic GUI stuff, nothing sexy like photo-realisct switches and rotating needle dials), then there are loads of good commercial Motif GUI builders out there. Pick one that can output its full functionality in UIL, use the Motif UIL compiler to make UID files. Then just make the 2 or 3 mwm calls it takes to import and map the whole shebang. The only other GUI code you'll need in your application are the calls to modify output widgets. I used that approach on a couple of projects. Its portable across nearly all Unixes, allows your GUI designers to work nearly indepently from your application developers, and leaves very little ugly GUI code cluttering up your Ada source. Plus, if someone decides a window needs to be mauve, or moved 3 pixels to the right, your application code doesn't even have to be recompiled. -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com WWW - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html