Suggestion of patch for libXaw3d-1.6.1

walter harms wharms at bfs.de
Tue Mar 6 09:38:14 PST 2012



Am 05.03.2012 23:00, schrieb Jean-Pierre Demailly:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 05:25:13PM +0100, walter harms wrote:
>> This looks interessting, did you try this with Xaw also ?
>>
> 
> No I didn't. However, the patch doesn't really use the specific features
> of Xaw3d, so it shouldn't be too hard to adapt it to make it work 
> with plain Xaw. The advantage of Xaw3d is that it has already a more 
> modern look and feel. (With plain Xaw, one would get a possibly strange
> combination of antialiased fonts with old style widgets...) In any case,
> it wouldn't be a big overhead except for the additional use of freetype.
> 
> Best regards,
> Jean-Pierre Demailly
> 

It would be interessting to do so in order to keep Xaw and Xaw3d in sync.

btw i remember that tooltips where different in Xaw than on Xaw3d. Is this still true ?

re,
 wh


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