On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 12:32, John R. Cary wrote: > Are there any estimates for the amount of time (developer-months) > that would be required for such a task? (I suppose one could > ask - how much time went into the development of the Motif > GUI?) I don't think anyone has ever tried publicly to scope out a port. I imagine the development of the existing GUI took on the order of 10 developer-years.
You might check out documentation for DXLink. file:///usr/local/dx/html/pages/progu084.htm#HDRDXLINK It allows the use of your own GUI with Data Explorer instead of the existing GUI. Martin p.s. The existing GUI passes nets to the exec through a socket (usually port 1900). Images are rendered into an off-screen X Window and blt-ed into the GUI's window via XCopyArea()... in the case of software rendering. When OpenGL is in use, the exec maps an OpenGL window on top of one of the GUI's X windows. ...well usually. There are other modes of operation. See documentation of tools with names that begin with "Supervise".
