Isn't OpenMotif free to use in commercial software? http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/license/ On 2016-11-13 12:10, Iznogoud wrote: >> >> I got my ultra-top-secret (because nobody would or should care) >> FreePascal translation of the XForms-toolkit C headers working pretty >> well. The image library translation is fun. Aside from the many image >> format functions, raw 32 bit packed color arrays or raw 8 bit >> Red/Green/Blue Pascal arrays make a nice framebuffer that displays on >> an >> XWindow Canvas. Like old fashioned DOS in high resolution with >> animation, too. >> > > Rick, please look up github and what it does and share your > (top-secret) > code as an example. There can never be too much information about > anything, > really. > > I am on a consulting project that requires some GUI on top of > scientific > software and has to only run on Unix (Linux really). I got a head start > so > that I can get the example on Github (for all to see) before I am on > that > payroll. > > Motif is not free for commercial software; I would seek another toolkit > to > do this. > > >> >> Holy hell, Motif hasn't died a well-deserved slow and painful death >> yet??? >> > > Motif is not dead. AMTEC's TecPlot just recently sqitched from Motif > (over > 20 years now) to something else (looks similar but is not). But there > is > still a lot of software that uses Motif, not just legacy software. I > recall > SDRC's I-DEAS (a CADD package from the 90s) had a Motif look, and it > was > running on windows over Xwin32. Oh, those were great old days. Rick is > not > the only old guy around! > > I'd use Xt straight up but I figured I really like the CDE (from IBM) > and > the MWM look of Motif. > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Kathryn Minnesota Freeze Senior Coach & Women's Head Coach http://womensfooty.com