GUI Builders -- Current State of Motif Builders
Aaron W. Hsu
Does anyone here use a GUI Builder for Motif? What is currently the
"gold standard" of builders for Motif? I played with X-Designer and was
impressed well enough by it, but I wonder what everyone uses these days
to do Motif development? Does everyone just hack it by hand, or is there
some GUI builder that makes the top of the list?
Right now, I know about UIM and X-Designer, but that's about the only
ones that I see. Is there a preference among those in the community?
Aaron W. Hsu
Fred
I have used ICS's BuilderXcessory for years. It is much easier to
integrate new widgets into it than it is for, say, UIMX.
However, I only use GUI builders to help design the layout; my final
code is by hand. It is preetty easy to use a resource file to play
figure out what values work best, especially for large applications
that can have hundreds of thousands of lines of code.
--
Fred K
Chris Sorenson
Here's a link to BX:
http://www.ics.com/products/motif/guibuilders/bx/bxpro/
I too have used it for years, it is truly awesome especially when used
in conjunction with Viewkit. Awfully expensive for the home hobbyist
though.
If SGI and The Open Group had open sourced Viewkit and Motif 10 years
we wouldn't be going through yet another widget/desktop war right now
(i.e. qt/GTK KDE/Gnome). Sad, that...