34)* Has anyone done a public domain Motif lookalike?

[Last modified: Sept 95]

Answer: The specification is available (AES), and the validation suite can be
bought, but no-one has taken up the challenge.  There are some commercial
lookalikes (Looking Glass and Neuron Data), but no workalikes.

Applications that follow the Style Guide might be certified Motif-compliant
through the checklist process, even though they're not using OSF/Motif
binaries.

(Added Sept 95)
LessTif is the Hungry Programmers' version of OSF/Motif. It will be source
code compatible with Motif, meaning that the same source will compile with
both libraries and work exactly the same. [Thanks to John W. Carbone,
jwc@li.net.] See:

        http://www.cs.uidaho.edu:8000/hungry/microshaft/lesstif.html

(Updated Sept 95)
Tcl/Tk is available for ftp from allspice.berkeley.edu, and although
implemented without Xt, has a "strict Motif" mode. There is also Tix, the Tk
Interface Extension. See:

        http://www.sunlabs.com/research/tcl/
        http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ioi/tix/tix.html

Strom Sytems (18666 Redmond Way o-2118, Redmond, WA 98052-6725) have a Simple
Toolkit for X-Windows (sic) that appears to follow the Style Guide even though
it doesn't quite look like Motif.

MOOLIT is a USL product that can be runtime switched between the Sun Open Look
and Motif appearance.  It is based on  OLIT 4i.

Interviews is a C++ based product with appearance similar to Motif.  A ftp-
able version is on interviews.stanford.edu.  A commercial version is available
as InterViews Plus.

Simon J. Lyall (simon@darkmere.midland.co.nz) reported about a package called:
Xu-lib & Widget Set- a library & widget set to "emulate" the look&feel and the
programming interface of OSF/Motif. Contact the author Udo Baumgart
(U.BAUMGART@ldb.han.de) for details.