From 4257406898551205973 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103734,a4086451cc6fa332 X-Google-Attributes: gid103734,public X-Google-Thread: 10350b,a4086451cc6fa332 X-Google-Attributes: gid10350b,public X-Google-Thread: 1102f1,a4086451cc6fa332 X-Google-Attributes: gid1102f1,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,a4086451cc6fa332 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 10b6ac,a4086451cc6fa332 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b6ac,public X-Google-Thread: 105df1,a4086451cc6fa332 X-Google-Attributes: gid105df1,public X-Google-Thread: f78e5,a4086451cc6fa332 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: brad@truffula.fp.trw.com (Brad Brahms) Subject: Re: Creating a Motif Toolbar Date: 1995/05/19 Message-ID: <3pi793$4cj@truffula.fp.trw.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 103115502 distribution: inet references: organization: TRW newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif,comp.windows.x,comp.lang.c++,comp.std.c++,comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.lang.c++,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.windows.x,comp.windows.misc In article , Peter Jarvis wrote: >Hello everyone, > >Can anyone give me any pointers or examples of how to develop an >application that works in the same way as the Microsoft Office >Application Toolbar? > > e.g. Toolbar to invoke applications by clicking > on an icon. > >I want to develop the application on both Windows and on Motif. My >preference is to share the code but being realistic I would just >like to get some pointers or examples of how this can be done under: > >1. MS Windows (MFC Classes...?) > - Are there any examples in the MFC, does anyone know? >2. Motif/X Windows > If you want to do the code in the native environment on each system, then for Motif, a row column widget using buttons with Pixmaps vice labels would work. If, for whatever reason, you can not get the row column widget to spread our the buttons in the way you want, a form could be used with attachments. If portability between Windows and Motif is important, than one of the cross plateform GUI APIs (XVT for instance) would work. The only problem with these that I know of is that the interface tends to be a little slower than a native application and it becomes harder to get to particulare fetures of one platform that are not available on another. However, the big win is that you have a single GUI to deal with. -- "Life is like a box of chocolates..." -- Bradley Brahms TRW Inc. Bradley.Brahms@trw.com