Use a Motif GUI Builder

Use a Motif GUI builder such as Application Builder (App Builder) or SunSoft Visual WorkShop^TM to build the new Motif GUI for the application. You need flexibility to experiment and make changes when you port using the two-step process described in "Convert and Clean Up". If you manually code in a particular GUI, it is difficult and time consuming to make modifications. App Builder provides flexibility by enabling you to drag and drop objects to easily create prototype GUIs. It generally requires less time to use a GUI builder to lay out a new Motif interface than it does trying to port the GUI by hand.

In fact, whatever porting process you use and no matter how large your application, you should consider using a Motif GUI builder. These builders produce the GUI and application framework code, which frees your time to focus on application code.