Tools to Transition to Motif

Many third-party tools are offered to transition to Motif. For example, Integrated Computer Solutions (ICS) offers two converters: one translates XView source code to GIL files and one translates GIL files to Motif source code.

Sun's Devguide offers Motif Conversion Utilities as a way of helping customers make the transition. Devguide's front end is still in the OPEN LOOK user interface, and it has the same OPEN LOOK palette, but you can use the Motif Conversion Utilities to transform GIL files into UIL files or Motif and C code. Use the Motif Conversion Utilities (guil and gmf) in the Solaris 2.4 Software Developer's Kit to convert GIL files to UIL and Motif C code. UIL files can be imported into Motif GUI builders to generate Motif-based GUIs.

Sun also provides a Motif GUI builder called SunSoft Visual WorkShop.

Note that using transition tools for GUI migration results in a GUI that you will probably need to refine to be CDE style-guide compliant. You may need less time to re-layout the GUI if you use a GUI builder tool.