Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 09:32:58 -0500 From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: alk@Think.COM (Tony Kimball), hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE Message-ID: <199603191432.JAA03482@ginger.cmf.nrl.navy.mil> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Mar 1996 12:32:32 %2B1030." <199603190202.MAA27505@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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>> Xf users: How does xf compare, as a resource editor? > >Xf is wonderful, but tied to outdated versions of Tcl/Tk. If someone were >to bring it up to date, the Tk community would be extatic. Unfortunately, >Sven appears to have better things to do with his time 8( Actually, I disagree. I think xf is kinda yukky. The big problem with xf is that it's kinda a pain to use. And if you don't know Tcl/Tk, it's impossible to use (try figuring out the difference between fill and expand by just using xf. Blah!). I tried it at first before I knew Tcl/Tk, and I just gave up and learned Tcl/Tk. Once I learned Tcl/Tk, I discovered that it was just easier to write my programs in Tcl/Tk directly than to use Xf. There was an interesting discussion about Xf on comp.lang.tcl a while ago. When I posted my experiences with Xf, about 10 people followed up my article and said, "Hey, I had the exact same thing happen to me!". Go figure :-) --Ken
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