Q14 - Standards Development Plan, Ada Interfaces to X Window System, Analysis and Recommendations
Abstract
This report describes the X Window System and its role in providing portable user interfaces for the bit-mapped graphics workstation market. It also shows how the Ada community can best take advantage of X to create portable applications and encourage code reuse. Included is a critique of a set of Ada bindings to X, and recommendations for a better for a better approach for providing X for Ada applications. The X Window System has become the standard window system for the workstation. The Ada community can achieve many of its portability goals by leveraging the work done in the X Window System. Ada needs an implementation of the Xt toolkit intrinsics, as this is becoming the standard intrinsics for X toolkits, and needs a single set of user interface objects for consistent user interfaces among applications. The advances being made in user interface management system technology can be incorporated into an Ada user interface standard to provide additional portability and reusability. (Author) (kr)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 20, 1989
- Accession Number
- ADA228825