[1319] in SIPB bug reports
xwebster
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Fri Sep 28 01:58:29 1990
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 90 01:57:46 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: rar@MIT.EDU
Cc: sipb-bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Roger A. Roach's message of Sun, 23 Sep 90 14:55:59 EDT <9009231856.AA26339@RAR.MIT.EDU>
First of all, you're right, if you click the left button in the help
window, it should not pop up a new help button.
Second, you're wrong about the right button -- it is *supposed* to
make the client exit when it is pressed in any window.
Third, the xwebster client was written entirely in Xlib, and is a
hideous, gross piece of code. I don't plan on doing any work on it,
because I am in the process of writing a totally new webster server
and clients, and when they are finished, the new clients will replace
the old ones.
I was about 2/3 finished with this project (after having worked on
it for less than a week -- I'd been putting it off for a long time,
but it took much less time than I'd expected it would when I finally
got around to it) when the term started, but I have not had time to
work on it since (being a full-time student is *tough* :-). Unless my
courseload lightens up, it'll probably be IAP before I get to finish
it.
I'm afraid you'll have to make do with the rusty X client until
then.
Incidentally, adding cut&paste and pull down menus to an Xlib
program with no previous support of them would be excruciatingly
painful. When I'm done with my webster library, the entire toolkit
version of xwebster will probably be less than three pages of code,
and will be much easier to modify. Furthermore, you'll be able to
write your own webster clients if you don't like ours :-).
jik
