forum for Motif, XLib, etc. programming enthusiasts?

[Hi-Angel]

I am a bit confused if you're talking of modern toolkits, or older
ones, or in general. If in general, than this is untrue — QtCreator
allows you to design GUI pretty much like Borland Delphi or Visual
Studio. For GTK alike thing is Glade — it's not so good as "design"
tab in QtCreator by virtue of being a stand alone utility, but
otherwise it works in alike fashion.

On 24 October 2017 at 23:25, Alan Corey <alan01346 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm, thank you but http://motif.ics.com/forum is now read-only.  As is
> http://www.motifdeveloper.com/.  I wanted to use C, not Lua.
>
> Maybe I'll have to bite the bullet and learn QT.  I have this theory
> that part of the reason there's so little modern software for Unix in
> general is because there aren't tools like Borland Delphi to write it
> with.  Yes, I've tried Lazarus and thought it was a hodgepodge of
> patches with the documentation a worse hodgepodge.  I have little
> problem writing command line stuff but making any GUI work is like a
> holy grail.  Maybe Java Swing then it's portable.  I was enjoying the
> retro aspect though.
>
> On 10/24/17, Matthieu Herrb <matthieu at herrb.eu> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 12:45:27PM -0400, Alan Corey wrote:
>>> I like playing around with the old stuff, because to me it seems
>>> simpler and more efficient than GTK3 or QT.  When it works.  I'm still
>>> trying to wrap my brain around mapping, managing, realizing widgets in
>>> the right order.
>>>
>>> I started out, put a notebook into a window, then a rowcol onto a page
>>> of it, then a drawing area in the top of that.  When I try to draw to
>>> it whatever I draw is clipped to about the top 10 pixels.  Why?  That
>>> sort of stuff.  Yes, I've got copies of vol6a, etc, the original
>>> O'Reily books.  If I spent a couple years reading I could probably
>>> find the answer but I'd forget my question.  Is there a forum of Motif
>>> freaks?
>>>
>>
>> The motif zone is still online : http://motif.ics.com/
>> and you may want to have a look at https://github.com/arcapos/luamotif
>> --
>> Matthieu Herrb
>>
>
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