Rikard Bosnjakovic wrote:

> Thanx for releasing it as freeware, the big problem is that motif aint
> free :/
> 
> IMHO, i'd prefer it if it used GTK, since i dont rather feel for paying for a gui.

Hi.  This is William Hayden, author of POV-Motif.  Thank you for your
interest in the application.

Hans Wachtmeister responded to your post with exactly what I was going
to tell you.  POV-Motif is statically linked with the Motif libraries,
and Motif isn't required to be on your system for you to use POV-Motif. 
I urge you to give it a try!  I use it all the time in my POV-Ray work.

As for GTK, there are a number of X toolkits out there of varying
popularity and usefulness.  GTK isn't one that I'm familiar with (Gnu
Tcl/Tk I'm guessing??), but then I have mainly concentrated on
commercial X development.  That means Motif.  In addition, POV-Motif was
a LOT of code.  I only wrote about half of it.  An excellent GUI builder
tool call XDesigner wrote the lion's share of the Motif code.  Since I
could statically link in the Motif code, I didn't see that it was a
problem developing against Motif.

To address Andrew McDavid's point about Lesstif.  I tried.  I REALLY
tried to get it to work.  I too didn't want to spend $100 for Motif for
Linux.  After all, I use Solaris most of the time.  Lesstif just isn't
ready for applications of even rudimentary functionality, let alone
something like POV-Motif.  They got downright rude when I reported the
bugs I was seeing and sent them source code examples.  Go figure.  It
isn't that I object to freeware X toolkits.  Parts of the Free Widet
Foundation's library are in POV-Motif.  But I do insist that the toolkit
functions as advertised without any spurious core dumps.  Lesstif isn't
in that category, sad to say.

All this is probably way more than you wanted to know.  Again, give
POV-Motif a try.  Most people who use it don't have Motif on their
systems.  Aside from a font problem on some systems (and there is a
workaround for that) it seems to function well for most users.

I also invite you to make out a wish list for the next revision.  1.0.1
has been out for 5 months now.  I've been busy with other projects, but
I want to get a late summer release out of POV-Motif 1.1.

Once again, thanks for your interest in POV-Motif.

Regards,









William D. Hayden

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