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Motif 1.2 Support.

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 05/16/2000 - 18:03.

I have an application which utilizes the LessTif libraries and I want to try the OpenMotif libraries instead. LessTif is a Motif clone and is supposedly compatible with Motif 1.2 and Motif 2.0 (I need 1.2). Is there support for Motif 1.2 in OpenMotif? If not, are there alternatives or should I press the developer of the application to upgrade his application to use OpenMotif 2.1?

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Tue, 05/16/2000 - 20:41#1

    

    

        Mark    

    
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Motif 1.2 Support.

        
Motif 2.1 should be upwards compatible with prior releases with two general constraints


1) Some 2.0 functions were removed from 2.1. So you are golden if coming from 1.2.x series

2) If you created any of your own widgets, you will probably have to do some rewriting. Information structure commonly used by widget writers changed in going from 1.2 to 2.x. Unless you used the "parts offset" approach to widget writing, there will be some work.


There are probably some other minor gotchas, but nothing significant that comes to mind.


Too bad, in the fall we had run a seminar series on upgrading to Motif 2.1... Once we catch our breadth, will have to see about getting it put in the reference area.


Regards,


Mark



    

    

    		
    
  

  

    
    
    
  









  

    
    
    
  

  

    
    
    
Wed, 05/17/2000 - 16:46#2

    

    

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Hmmm... OSF/Motif maybe... I spend long minutes (for such snob like me it`s eternity) trying to conveince apps which i first compiled with Lesstif, not to crash mwm on start... Blowing libXm.so.2.0 of earlier mentioned thing helped...