----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexander Mai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "LessTif Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: Announcement: Embedded Open Motif]
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 16:09:11 -0400, Mark Hatch wrote:
>
> >The "optimization" to date consists primarily of removing functions that
> >*we* judged as being inappropriate for a small screen or obsolete.
Nothing
> >magical here, we probably got some things wrong, but it is a start.
> >Specifically, we removed:
> >
> >- X pixmap library (already loaded by other software)
> >- Widgets/Gadgets: Container, Notebook, Icon
> >- Functions: GrabShell, Text Properties, Xm String Segmentation, New
> >Translation functions
> >- Obsolete Functions: See contents of files Obso1_2, ObsoStr, ObsoXme,
> >Obso2_0.
>
> So, it might not work out to just re-build some arbitrary complex
> Motif based project, but may require "porting" even
> for the GUI part? Hmm
True, but we targeted Motif 2.1 functionality and left Motif 1.2 stuff
alone. In our experience, few commercial applications use new Motif 2.1
functionality even though they might use Motif 2.1 (for example on Solaris 8
or HP-UX 11). In any case, it would be easy enough to re-insert the Notebook
(yecch, what an ugly widget, it is also ~800kb by itself!) if you had your
heart set on it.
>
> >So what's in it for ICS?
> >We did the work for two reasons:
> >a. Additional product sales of our Motif GUI builder (BX PRO).
> >b. Consulting/services contracts with hardware vendors and end users to
> >support Embedded Open Motif on their platforms. (Cygnus model)
>
> The point is to have a GUI builder which has now a flag
> selecting the output "device" and so disable some widgets?!
Sure, and maybe add some window dressing to a bulletin board (automatically
sized to the right size screen size) to make it look like a generic PDA to
help you visualize your UI as you build it. :)
>
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> Alexander Mai
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