forum for Motif, XLib, etc. programming enthusiasts?

[walter harms]

Am 25.10.2017 01:20, schrieb Alan Corey:
> Yes, I've played in Glade a little, wasn't crazy about it.  And GTK3
> looks awful, just the amount of text for a hello world program.
> 
> I wanted to use Motif but support for it is vanishing it seems.
> Athena, I hate the scrollbars.  What I want to work at is an SDR
> (Software Defined Radio) program so the more efficiently it can update
> the spectrum area the better.  It's almost like video, people use 2 -
> 30 frames per second, meanwhile getting data in over USB and doing an
> FFT on it, plus demodulating in different threads.  In real time.
> 
> I'm not seeing a widget in GTK that draws that efficiently.  QT can do
> it, or Java Swing, or even just plain old bare XLIB, except I wanted
> some widgets.  I was hoping to use a Motif DrawingArea.  There isn't
> room for a lot of bloat between the code and the screen.  XDrawLine is
> fast enough.

sorry, no DrawingArea is very comparable slow.
Compared to others XT is surprisingly effectiv. I do a lot remote stuff
and software is often only usable only with helps like NX while older
Programms often need nothing additional. NTL i found the most effective
way in XT is to make widget, what requires some work in the beginning
but after that things getting more easy.

Contact me if you are interested in Motif and so on.

re,
 wh
> 
> There's a qtcsdr https://github.com/ha7ilm/qtcsdr/archive/master.zip
> which isn't bad as far as it goes, written with QT.  It runs at 50%
> CPU or so on a Raspberry Pi 3.  I'd add a button to turn off screen
> updates so it could run more in the background.  Just playing with
> ideas at this point.
> 
> On 10/24/17, Hi-Angel <hiangel999 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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