re x toolkits in article c y wj ze undergrad math uwaterloo ca papresco undergrad math uwaterloo ca paul prescod writes i am considering making a reasonably large application for free distribution probably copylefted i am going to use x now i m the following packages meet your criteria in that they are pd and present an aesthetically pleasant graphical interface to the users if you can use bsd there is xview openlook there is interviews which looks a little like motif there is gopath a very nice c toolkit for athena widgets and motif which is simpler and better than interviews and you will enjoy technical support from bull via e mail it has a nice draw program it uses motif which can be used to create graphical front end to programs the data format is called streams which you can feed to your programs i ported gopath on an internet machine which is gone but if you use gcc with minimal effort gopath can be ported to bsd last but not least gopath interfaces to toolkits via a driver module they have an ms windows driver module for instance also many have written extensions to tk tcl thus allowing powerful applications for instance tcl nm has snmp extensions for tk tcl with ease i can now combine snmp network operations with graphs photo widget graphical interface file operations database operations etc the author of tcl nm mail me a simple network management application which was about lines long it displayed various environmental parameters from a router i wrote a simple strip chart script for displaying real time ip received packets seconds hope this helps amancio hasty this message brought to you by the letters x and s and the number amancio hasty home ftp site depository of all my work e mail hasty netcom com sunvis rtpnc epa gov pub bsd incoming
