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Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

Title:	DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90
Notice:	See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit
Moderator:	STAR::VATNE

Created:	Mon Oct 30 1989
Last Modified:	Mon Dec 31 1990
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	3726
Total number of notes:	19516

2042.0. "Development Products & Supported Applications?" by WJOUSM::BILLS () Mon Jan 15 1990 13:14

    Though my group is not currently using DEC/Windows, we know that
    both Workstations and DEC/Windows are in our future.  We need
    to know:
    
     -	What products are a part of DEC/Window, i.e. some
    some kind of development toolkit.
    
     -  What products are currently supported as layered applications.
    
     -  Futures plans for both.
    
    I've used both keywords and dir/title= looking for just such
    information, but have not found a note containing it.
    Could you please point me in the direction of such information?
    
    Thanks in advance for your help,
    
    Gwen Bills

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2042.1	some layered app's	RAB::ASHLUND	Stacey Ashlund, DECdecision Calc	`Mon Jan 15 1990 19:07`	15
	>> - What products are currently supported as layered applications. I'll answer part of that... For layered applications, there is DECwrite, a WYSIWYG document editor. V1.0 is currently available, see the notesfile, QUEEN::DECWRITE, for more info and future plans. DECdecision is also available - it consists of 4 components: DECchart (for graphing data), Calc (spreadsheet), Access (database management system), and Builder (to automatically record and re-run tasks across all components). See note #2034 for the latest kit, T1.1 (IFT of V1.1) and REGAL::DECdecision (KP7 to add) for more info and future plans. -Stacey
2042.2		PSW::WINALSKI	Careful with that VAX, Eugene	`Mon Jan 15 1990 22:36`	28
	RE: .0 > - What products are a part of DEC/Window, i.e. some > some kind of development toolkit. That's DECwindows (plural, not singular, no slash in the name). DECwindows right now includes a X11 server to support our graphics hardware, Xlib (the C bindings for the X11 client interface), a set of Xlib bindings compatible with the VMS Common Language Environment (so you can call them from languages other than C), the XUI Toolkit and UIL User Interface Language compiler, and various out-of-the-box applications (Calendar, Cardfiler, Notepad editor, Bookreader, Mail, Puzzle, Calculator, User Executive (VUE, UUE)). In the future, DECwindows will support OSF/Motif as its primary Toolkit. See the DECwindows Guide to Application Programming for more info. > - What products are currently supported as layered applications. DECwrite and the various CDA products, as described in .1. VAXTPU and EVE editors. Various software development tools: our VMS language compilers, LSE, SCA, VAX DEBUG, PCA, CMS, DTM, DECdesign. A lot more to come in this area in the future. --PSW
2042.3	A few more come to mind	FEGPX::SWEENEY	Patrick Sweeney in Hong Kong	`Tue Jan 16 1990 09:50`	8
	VU-IT, an interactive design tool based on UIL has been program-announced externally. ALL-IN-1 Phase II, a DECwindows-based version of the popular office automation software, has been program-announced externally. An Application Developer's Widget Set is internally now in Phase 0 (SVN, GObE, and Neted are in the bunch).