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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 09:32:58 -0500
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
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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Xf is wonderful, but tied to outdated versions of Tcl/Tk.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