39) Has anyone done a public domain Motif lookalike?

[Last modified: May 97]

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 Motif binaries.

(Updated May 97)
LessTif is the Hungry Programmers' version of 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,
Chris Toshok (toshok@hungry.com), and Jon Fo (jonf@protocol.com)] See:

        http://www.lesstif.org/

(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 Motif. Contact the author Udo Baumgart
(U.BAUMGART@ldb.han.de) for details.