Author: Ed Panek
Date: 09:40:45 10/03/00
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On October 03, 2000 at 03:16:56, David Blackman wrote: >On October 02, 2000 at 23:18:24, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>2. If you write your own, you have to use xwindows graphical calls. X >>has been around 10 years longer than windows, but Microsoft didn't choose >>to adopt the X standard. Which means that if you roll your own GUI, you >>will have to roll two versions (compare xboard and winboard sources to see >>what Tim Mann does here). Two versions of something is always gross... > >There are several cross-platform GUI toolkits that will support MS Windows, X >Windows, and in some cases others as well. > >Tk is the most obvious example. It's portable, (mostly) free, and quite easy to >program. But there are many others also, that each have their own advantages, >and their own band of fanatical supporters. X windows is ideal. It run on any computer, non constrained styles, window can be run ON ANOTHER COMPUTER(ethernet of course) !!, Ed
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