1. Irv's Graphapp
Since I've just switched my computer over to Linux, I
am interested in programming in XWindows. I want to
know if you have to do anything different for the
different desktop/window managers for X11. I am using
Caldera's OpenLinux 2.3. It uses KDE 1.1.1, and would
I have to do anything different for window managers
like Enlightenment, Gnome, Window Maker or any of the
other popular ones???
Thanks all,
Mike Hurley
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2. Re: Irv's Graphapp
Mike Hurley wrote:
> I am interested in programming in XWindows.
There are two versions of GraphApp available under XWindows: Motif, and
Athena. Motif and Athena simply specify widget libraries - the various
controls that appear inside of a window. They happily run under any window
manager. The window manager and widget libraries can pretty much be mixed
and matched.
The Motif version is written using the widgets available in the Motif
library, which are not public domain (translation: you probably don't have
the Motif library on your machine). There's a free implementation of Motif
called LessTiff, but most people don't have that. The Athena version of
GraphApp is written to XLib (the core XWindows library), and should happily
run on any XWindows system, no matter what the window manager is.
-- David Cuny
3. Re: Irv's Graphapp
- Posted by Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM>
Mar 01, 2000
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Last edited Mar 02, 2000
On Wed, 01 Mar 2000, Mike Hurley wrote:
> Since I've just switched my computer over to Linux, I
> am interested in programming in XWindows. I want to
> know if you have to do anything different for the
> different desktop/window managers for X11. I am using
> Caldera's OpenLinux 2.3. It uses KDE 1.1.1, and would
> I have to do anything different for window managers
> like Enlightenment, Gnome, Window Maker or any of the
> other popular ones???
Hi Mike:
GraphApp (by Lachlan Patrick) works on all window managers I've
tried (7 or 8 different ones) with the only real difference being in the style
of the windows and borders. No changes are necessary in any code.
I'm using GraphApp with the Athena widget set. The Motif widget set looks
better, and works more like the Windows widgets, but Motif isn't free. I haven't
yet been able to get Lesstif, the free Motif clone to work properly, but that
has nothing to do with GraphApp.
A much more versatile and nicer looking GUI for Linux/Windows, etc. is the FLTK
library. So far, I haven't had time to attempt a Euphoria wrapper for FLTK.
Maybe someday.
Regards,
Irv
4. Re: Irv's Graphapp
to all who responded-
Thanks. That's what I though but I wanted to be sure.
Mike Hurley
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