OPEN LOOK

Domain	Definition
Computing	Open Look A graphical user interface and window manager from Sun and AT&T. Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.graphics.openlook. (1995-06-11). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Specialty Definition: OPEN LOOK

OPEN LOOK or OpenLook was an early graphical user interface (GUI) specification developed by Sun Microsystems and AT&T in the early 1990s for UNIX workstations. It had its origins in SunOS 2.1, SunView and Sun's Motorola 68000-based UNIX workstations. OpenLook was distinguised by its oval-shaped buttons, triangle pull down menus and pushpins which allowed dialog boxes and palettes to stay visible. Because it was a specification at the user level, it could actually be implemented in different ways underneath -- using X Windows or Sun's NeWS toolkit. The specification was a collaboration between Sun and AT&T, which had an alliance back to develop UNIX and graphical toolkits. OpenLook had a useable pallete of 256 colours.

In the early 1990s, its main competitor was the OSF Motif GUI or the vanilla X Windows TWM window manager and Athena widgets. At the time, Motif was backed by the rest of the workstation industry, such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Digital Equipment Corporation.

In an attempt to create an API to make applications GUI independent, Sun and AT&T tried to develop the awkwardly named MoOLIT, which was a Motif-OpenLook library with common GUI features such as boxes, menus, lists, buttons, etc., but allowed users to choose which GUI they wanted at runtime. It was not considered a very successful products and was not widely used.

Shortly after the industry had made its intentions clear, OpenLook was eventually dropped by Sun in favor of Common Desktop Environment and Motif.

Commercial Usage: OPEN LOOK

Domain	Title
Books	Open Look at Unix (reference) Open Look at Unix: A Developer's Guide to X/Book and Disk (reference) The Open Look. (reference) Using X: Troubleshooting the X Window System, Motif and Open Look (reference) (more book examples)
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Misspellings: OPEN LOOK

Anagrams: OPEN LOOK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-k-l-n-o-o-o-p"
	-3 letters: pelon, plonk.
	-4 letters: enol, kelp, keno, knop, koel, kolo, leno, lone, look, loon, loop, lope, noel, nolo, nook, nope, oleo, open, peon, poke, pole, polo, pone, pool, poon.
	-5 letters: elk, eon, ken, kep, kop, lek, loo, lop, noo, oke, ole, one, ope, pen, pol.
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Alternative Orthography: OPEN LOOK

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 50 45 4E 4C 4F 4F 4B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01010000 01000101 01001110 00100000 01001100 01001111 01001111 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0050 0045 004E 004C 004F 004F 004B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

OPEN LOOK

Specialty Definition: OPEN LOOK

Computing

Specialty Definition: OPEN LOOK

Crosswords: OPEN LOOK

Commercial Usage: OPEN LOOK

Books

Misspellings: OPEN LOOK

Misspellings

Anagrams: OPEN LOOK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: OPEN LOOK

4F 50 45 4E 4C 4F 4F 4B

01001111 01010000 01000101 01001110 00100000 01001100 01001111 01001111 01001011

&#79 &#80 &#69 &#78 &#32 &#76 &#79 &#79 &#75

004F 0050 0045 004E 004C 004F 004F 004B

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Misspellings
	"OPEN LOOK" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Openlook. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).