Re: newbie resource temporarily unavailable

2012-07-01 Thread Glynn Clements
pk wrote: > > FYI > > perhaps this is correct for desktop but there are several applications > > in the wild that are used regular that require Xt. That's the difference between "legacy" and "obsolete". Legacy software still has some value due to historical (i.e. compatibility) reasons, but woul

Re: newbie resource temporarily unavailable

2012-07-01 Thread pk
On 2012-07-01 10:54, walter harms wrote: > FYI > perhaps this is correct for desktop but there are several applications > in the wild that are used regular that require Xt. Besides XEmacs, regular Emacs (with X support), Gnu gv, Libreoffice, Sun/Oracle JDK (with X support), tk, Thunderbird, Image

Re: newbie resource temporarily unavailable

2012-07-01 Thread walter harms
Am 30.06.2012 15:31, schrieb Glynn Clements: > > Alan Corey wrote: > >> Well, you see, I just really dislike C++. I've tried on and off for >> years and I just can't get it through my head. I want a toolkit I can >> program in C. FLTK seems great, same with GTK, but not without C++. >> I'm f

Re: Re: newbie �resource temporarily unavailable� qu esti on

2012-06-30 Thread Glynn Clements
Alan Corey wrote: > Well, you see, I just really dislike C++. I've tried on and off for > years and I just can't get it through my head. I want a toolkit I can > program in C. FLTK seems great, same with GTK, but not without C++. > I'm familiar with OO programming concepts from Java, Delphi an

Re: newbie �resource temporarily unavailable� questi on

2012-06-29 Thread Alan Corey
Well, you see, I just really dislike C++. I've tried on and off for years and I just can't get it through my head. I want a toolkit I can program in C. FLTK seems great, same with GTK, but not without C++. I'm familiar with OO programming concepts from Java, Delphi and Perl but C++? Uh-uh. > >

Re: newbie ???resource temporarily unavailable??? questi on

2012-06-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 08:21:04PM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote: > > Alan Corey wrote: > > > I'm just plinking around after having read the early chapters of the > > O'Reilly volumes 4a and 6a plus some Athena and Xlib stuff. I was > > itching to try some things. For my background see > > http://

Re: newbie �resource temporarily unavailable� questi on

2012-06-29 Thread Glynn Clements
Alan Corey wrote: > I'm just plinking around after having read the early chapters of the > O'Reilly volumes 4a and 6a plus some Athena and Xlib stuff. I was > itching to try some things. For my background see > http://ab1jx.webs.com For graphics programming I've mostly worked in > Turbo Pascal