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[jon@MIT.EDU: Re: Easy-to-Learn, Portable, GUI toolkit]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Wed Sep 23 19:12:55 1992
From: yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 92 19:10:52 -0400
To: jon@MIT.EDU
Cc: developers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: jon@MIT.EDU's message of Wed, 23 Sep 92 18:09:56 BST <9209232209.AA09859@delwin>
Reply-To: yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU
(sorry about the too-wide reply last time; I should know better)
When we ran the sparc version on deathtongue (IPX w/ 4.1.2), there
were a number of problems, the most obvious of which isa that the
scrolled text widget didn't repaint the background at all. Moving the
scrollbar up and down would quickly fill the widget with a solid black
rectangle. In general, it wasn't repainting correctly on many things;
the pie-chart value widget was doing something similar: making it
smaller had no visible effect until you caused the widget to
completely repaint itself, etc. After playing with it for a few
minutes, Marc Horowitz, Shabby and I decided that we'd probably be
better off waiting for the next release. The way that a lot of the
widgets were 'transparent' was kind of neat, but seemed to cause some
problems too.
I just snarfed the Mac version and tried it out on banana-sr (Mac II
w/ Sys 7) and noticed that a number of these problems weren't present
in the mac version, and that it doesn't even try to be transparent,
except, odly, for the two color animated ball-in-a-box widgets. To
see what I mean, move one of them on top of the other. A couple other
things I noticed about the mac version:
1. Response time on entering text was abysmall; far below what
seemed to be 'normal' response time for other operations.
Without having looked at the code (and not being familiar
enough with Macs to have it mean anything if I did :-)
2. It doesn't deal well with color; especially if you are
running thigns which use a lot of colors already.
3. Choosing the 'Resize Window' selection from the SUIT menu
caused the mac to hang.
Since the only Windows environment I have here is a slow machine
running OS/2, so I'm even going to bother. Anyone tried it out yet?
Also, on a related note, has anyone tried stdwin, or perhaps garnet?
-C
