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COMMERCIAL: Metro Link Motif 2.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Mon Mar 13 19:09:17 1995
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 13:56:45 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: holly@chickadee.metrolink.com (Holly Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Metro Link Motif 2.0
Organization: Metro Link Incorporated
Keywords: graphics,motif,Metro Link,window manager,GUI,X11,commercial
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METRO LINK MOTIF 2.0 FOR LINUX -- WORTH THE WAIT!
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The exciting features of Motif 2.0 are now available from
Metro Link! This major release of OSF's popular graphical
user interface is ported specifically for use with the new
X11R6 version of the X Window System (XFree86 3.1.1 or
higher).
For developers, Motif 2.0 makes creation of software
applications and custom widgets simple. The many toolkit
enhancements, new widgets, and UIL improvements
provide uncomplicated application portability across a
variety of platforms.
For end users, Motif 2.0 improves their interface
performance. The virtual screen support unclutters their
workspace by providing alternate locations for chosen
windows, while providing greater consistency with PC
environments.
Metro Link's Motif is derived from OSF/Motif under
license from OSF. In addition, Metro Link has a full
support contract with OSF.
=== FEATURES ===
The new features of Motif 2.0 are:
* An extensibility framework to ease application and
widget development.
* Compliance with the Common Desktop Environment (CDE)
and IEEE 1295.
* Convergence with PC styles including seven new widgets.
* Support for desktop infrastructures such as virtual
window management and workspace management.
* Numerous toolkit enhancements including a Uniform Transfer
Model (UTM) for simplified data transfer.
* UIL improvements which include 64-bit support, platform
independent uid files and support of extensibility features.
As in earlier releases, Motif 2.0 offers:
* A common user interface across a wide range of applications
and platforms.
* Easy-to-use PC windowing-style interactive behavior, providing
users with rapid skill transfer.
* Distinctive 3-D bevelled user interface elements.
* A single, stable, widely available application programming
interface (API) allowing application developers to "write it
once" for many platforms.
* A superior set of tools offering high developer productivity
in establishing a consistent look and feel.
* Internationalization, easing access to worldwide markets.
* Hardware independence for scalability across all types of
operating and file systems.
* Network transparency based on the X Window System.
=== THE METRO LINK DIFFERENCE ===
Metro Link provides reliable, high-quality products. In this
release of Motif 2.0 our team of developers located and
fixed numerous bugs in the source code, some of which
were fatal. We've also made our release compliant with the
Linux Filesystem Structure Standard.
Additionally, we've added Pixmap Tools to the package to
enhance the color pixmap support of Motif 2.0. These tools
include a pixmap browser, a pixmap editor, and a large
selection of premade color pixmaps. Simply set resources to
display color icons, labels, and buttons within your
applications. Create your own icons or edit the samples
with the Motif-based pixmap editor. The xbmbrowser
utility displays a whole directory of pixmaps
simultaneously, which makes finding just the right image
easy and enjoyable.
As always, Metro Link software comes with 90 days of free
technical support (via phone, fax, or email) and a 30-day
money-back guarantee.
=== WHAT'S INCLUDED ===
The Metro Link port of Motif 2.0 includes all of the
following:
1) Motif Window Manager (mwm)
2) Shared Motif Widget Library (libXm.so.2.0 and libXm.sa)
3) Motif Demos
4) Static Motif Widget Library
5) Static Mrm and UIL Libraries
6) UIL Compiler
7) Motif Header Files
8) Manual Pages for Motif Function Calls
9) Imakefile Support
10) Source to OSF/Motif Demos
11) Over 400 quality color pixmaps, most with transparent
backgrounds
12) Pixmap Editor
13) Xbmbrowser Utility
=== DISTRIBUTION OPTIONS ===
Disks:
Motif 2.0 is distributed on five floppy disks with release
notes and one bound volume of the OSF/Motif User's
Guide. Shipping charges are additional.
Internet FTP:
For fastest delivery and no shipping charges, Motif 2.0 is
also available via FTP from the Metro Link internet site.
With a credit card payment, the FTP instructions are
usually emailed on the same day the order is received. With
this option you do not receive a bound manual (nothing is
shipped), but you can download all three postscript
manuals from the FTP site: The OSF/Motif User's Guide,
the OSF/Motif Programmer's Guide, and the OSF/Motif
Widget Writer's Guide.
=== PRICE ===
NEW
Motif 2.0 is available for $199.
UPGRADE
Existing Metro Link customers with Motif 1.x can upgrade
for $69.
COMPETITIVE TRADE-IN
Dissatisfied with your current release of Motif?
Are you DRoWNing in bugs? Do you have a SiNKing feeling
that you purchased unwisely?
Metro Link now offers an $89 trade-in option for people who
bought Motif from other sources. (Proof of purchase required.)
=== ORDERING ===
To place an order, please contact Metro Link directly:
Phone: 305-938-0283
Fax: 305-938-1982
Email: holly@metrolink.com
Metro Link Incorporated
4711 North Powerline Road
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33309
USA
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