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From: jwong@sybase.com (Jonathan Wong)
Subject: Re: IBM Smalltalk, opinions?
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Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 00:00:45 GMT
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In article <39olvl$1bsb@sernews.raleigh.ibm.com> pmuellr@vnet.ibm.com writes:
>In <sehyoCywv1x.4rt@netcom.com>, sehyo@netcom.com (Sehyo Chang) writes:
>
>>I noticed that too.  I  could only find Motif widgets in my cursory
>>examination. Could you briefly describe how Motif widgets are portable
>>to Windows?
>
>Existing OS/2 and Windows controls are wrapped my a Motif-ish layer.
>Where things don't exist on the platform, they are emulated.

Note this cuts both ways because although Motif doesn't have a ComboBox widget,
the CommonWidgets package does include one, which uses the real widget on
Windows and is emulated on Motif.


Also note that CommonWidgets is built on Win32S not the Win16 API.


P.S., Both the IBM Smalltalk VM and CommonWidgets are produced by OTI, the
makers of Envy, and they have been ported to SunOS, HP-UX, and the Mac! among
others.
