Re: COSE, tooltalk, drag and drop

Scott Raney ((no email))
Tue, 6 Jul 93 10:40:22 MDT

>
> Hi Scott
>
> With the advent of COSE, will you guys be looking at things like ToolTalk
> and drag and drop facilities for MetaCard.

We are evaluating ToolTalk. It seems a good match to the MetaCard
architecture. The only issue is when to implement it. Although the
other OEMs have committed to supplying it, SPARC Solaris is the only
platform that comes with it. Anybody using it now?

Drag and drop is a real mess now, what with each toolkit vendor
implementing it a different (and incompatible) way. We tried to get
the spec for it from OSF, and they won't release it unless you license
their code (the legal document that allows you to use the code without
coming under OSF's licensing requirements is about as bizarre as they
come). MIT is supposed to have drag and drop support in X11R6, and it
is unlikely that we'll support it until then.

> Secondly what is the current price of a single copy of MetaCard

$495 for 1.2, and that includes the upgrade to 1.3 when it comes out.

> Thanks
>
> Tim Hoffman
>

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