re gadgets vs widgets motif managers take a very simplistic approach to the way they handle events for gadgets they track for all events such as motion notify wether or not the gadget expresses interest in the events as a result gadgets typically generate a great deal more network traffic those with x terminals might find a noticable network performance drop as a result really what s the point using gadgets then it is a case of memory vs network performance tradeoff gadgets save both client and server memory but memory is easily expandable while network performance is not so if i were designing motif i would at least make it possible to avoid using gadgets at present you really don t have a choice because motif forces you to use gadgets in menus and in various other places adrian nye o reilly and associates inc i ve been using the xmgraph widget that s been floating around and i noticed the performance is significantly better using gadgets perhaps even faster i had heard in an old programming course that gadgets were no longer any benefit to performance and that it s just as well to use widgets everywhere so why would pushbutton gadgets be a lot quicker than pushbuttons in the graph should i start putting gadgets back into my long pulldown menus xmgraph manages children connected by xmarc widgets in a directed network type graph with automatic layout capability bill schlumberger geco prakla internet kayser delft sgp slb com
