| Re: using wave widgets...motif and wave [message #1050 is a reply to message #803] |
Tue, 18 May 1993 02:01  |
glenn
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Registered: May 1993
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In article 20476@news.yale.edu, Gary Leydon <Leydon%Bruce@Venus.Ycc.Yale.Edu> writes:
> Hi,
> I'm playing around with wave widgets on a VMS 5.5 system and pvwave
> cl version 4.01. I'm wondering if using the Wt toolbox and/or wave
> widget toolbox
> is worth the effort. Has anyone done much with this and care to share
> your
> opinions? I'm beginning to think I should be going the other way...e.g
> call wave
> cl from my c program which handles all the motif stuff...that way I get
> access to
> all the motif convience routines not just the widgets.
I using the pv-wave widgets now to build a visualisation program and have
spent a fair amount of time learning how to use the wave widgets set and
wondering whether I shouldn't use our GUI builder (DevGuide in this case)
to write the code and then call wave from C. I've not used the Wt widgets
only the WaveWidgets toolbox. I've not yet found a case where I need a new
widget. However, I have had problems setting some attributes (for OpenLook)
like the colour of items. I have also found it awkward to position the
widgets exactly where I want them without lots of fiddling around. This is
of course something you take for granted with a GUI builder, taking no
time at all.
Having said that, once you get used to the style of working with the widgets
(which takes some time if you used to working with a GUI builder), programming
is quite quick. I've stayed with WaveWidgets because (a) I wasn't sure how
easy 2 way interaction was going to be between C and wave and I couldn't afford
the time to find out (b) my application will be distributed to other sites
with different hardware making a mixed C/wave environment less attractive
(c) I get nervous of mixed language programs(! 8-)
If I was starting again, for a smallish application, I'd stick with the
WaveWidgets. For a large application (assuming the C/wave interface did everything
I wanted), I use a GUI builder because I think it would be quicker and
much more flexible. I'd be interested to hear what others have to think
though.
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Dr Glenn Carver Email: glenn@atm.ch.cam.ac.uk
Centre for Atmospheric Science Phone: (44-223) 336521
Chemistry Department Fax : (44-223) 336362
Cambridge University
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