Re: Motif & Performer

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Adolf Mathias (dolfi++at++venus.zkm.de)
Thu, 13 Oct 94 16:34:41 +0200

>We are planning to put a Motif-based GUI on an
>existing Performer program. I am currently looking
>at different ways of doing this and wondering what
>the best approach would be.
>
>- Can the GlxMDraw widget be used with Performer 1.2?
>- How will the Performer performance suffer if pfFrame
>is called from a Motif program's main loop?
>- Would it be better to put the GUI code in a separate
>process that communicates with the Performer App process
>through shared memory?
>
>A lot of other questions come to mind, but I'd better
>stop here. If you have any thoughts on the subject,
>I'd like to hear (make that read) them.

I'm currently writing an integration of Tcl/Tk, which offers Motif-like
look and feel, and Performer. The GL part is pased on the glxwin
Tk widget by Michael Halle which can be obtained by anon ftp from
harbor.ecn.purdue.edu in /pub/tcl. Tcl/Tk is described in the excellent
book by John Ousterhout (Addison&Wesley, 94).

As far as I can judge now, GL, X11 and Performer work together
perfectly, and X11 programming is much less boring when you use
Tcl/Tk. Configuration and setup scripts in Tcl become peanuts, too,
and X resources work as well.

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