announcing the motif mailing list i am glad and proud to announce the new mailing list for the pd motif c bindings i got over replies in about one week of people interested in such a list and the software has now been properly installed so the list is now up and running for those interested in joining please send e mail to that extend to motif request cv ruu nl or rvloon cv ruu nl the blurb everyone who joins gets follows as well as the original announcement for where motif can be obtained enjoy welcome to the motif mailing list the motif mailing list is a mailing list dedicated to motif the pd c wrapper library for motif where people can ask questions about motif swap stories and give new ideas about new directions and improvements for the bindings all requests of an administrative nature like subscription removal etc should be directed to motif request cv ruu nl all e mail sent to motif cv ruu nl will be sent to the entire list so please make sure when using vacation type programs that will reply to messages automatically that the address for the mailing list is excluded from auto replies enjoy ronald van loon in theory there is no difference rvloon cv ruu nl between theory and practice dcv group utrecht the netherlands in practice however there is hello motif world over the past half year there have been a lot of relatively minor changes to the motif bindings imake support has been improved a few defaults have been changed and a lot of other small things have been added this is basically a release which drops the gamma status next release will incorporate some improvements by stefan schwarz and possibly will support x r and motif x note to all of those who keep copies of the archive please retrieve this distribution during off peak hours and delete all previous copies here is the original announcement history the university of lowell supported by a grant of the open software foundation has developed a wrapper library that encapsulates motif widgets in c classes all resources of these widgets can now be set through member functions while objects can be used in callback functions the library was made available for free or nominal cost for anonymous ftp at however the library contained a large number of bugs and oversights and only worked under x r due to lack of subsequent fundings the bindings are no longer actively supported by the university of lowell i ronald van loon at a certain point last year have taken the lowell bindings fixing the bugs i came across adding missing memberfunctions and enhancing functionality and made the bug fixed library available for the general public for anonymous ftp made possible by rick murphy at dec new release i am now pleased to announce a new and updated release of the motif bindings this release offers full motif and x r support support for xbae widgetset two additional widgets written by myself that can be used to indicate progress in an application imake support nb this release relies heavily on the existence of imake and its config files on your site i have tried to provide the bindings with a standard makefile tweakable for those unfortunates without imake i have not severely tested the standard makefile though contact me if you have problems the reason for calling this a gamma release lies in the fact that i do not have a multitude of platforms to test the imake files on lots of testfiles even somewhat useful programs an article i wrote on the usage of motif x and c previously posted on usenet where to get the new motif bindings ftp anonymous ftp at decuac dec com directory pub x note please be patient as the network link is quite slow please do not ftp large files during working hours also note that there is also a motif jan tar z file at this site this is an old version of the bindings e mail those who don t have ftp can send me e mail and i will send the bindings by e mail request those who use the bindings and find bugs or see room for improvement please contact me and i will try to incorporate them in a future release in case of bugs a bug fix of course more information contact me at rvloon cv ruu nl if you are desperate then you can call me at that is utrecht the netherlands those within the netherlands call enjoy ronald van loon in theory there is no difference rvloon cv ruu nl between theory and practice dcv group utrecht the netherlands in practice however there is
