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From: ats@first.gmd.de (Andreas Schulz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: X-Window, Mosaic ?
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Date: 31 Jul 94 22:52:59 GMT
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In article <314dtq$mtm@earth.cs.utexas.edu>,
Goran Devic <goran@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
>Hi, everyone,
>
>I would like to start programming for X-Windows under FreeBSD.
>Please anyone tell me what packages are available and are better. Is Mosaic 
>good?  What is Athena?  I would prefer some shareware/freeware packages.

Mosaic is only a program and nothing to program under X-Windows :-).
The Athena Widget Set is a library that gives some simple routines
to use under X-Windows ( scrollbars, textwindows, selection-menues ? ).
There are other such libraries like Motif ( commercial ), Open Look
library ( commercial or also free available ? ), The xview Library,
Andrew Toolkit, etc ...
If you have not programmed under X-Windows try to first read the 
X-Window books from O-Reilly and then search on the Net for the
available packages for X-Window programming. One word of warning,
GUI programming is no fun :-).


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