gliff ScoE

The base class in Fresco's class hierarchy is a gliff.

Lad, you gave me a gliff; pass me another stoup of wine!

Mony's the gliff I got mysel' in the great deep; and why the Lord should hae made yon unco water is mair than ever I could win to understand.

It is likely that by the time of its release in X11R6 - if that eventually happens - Fresco components could be incorporated into XT toolkits - it should be possible to have a gliff in an XT widget, for example.

Yet it soon appeared rather to proceed from a total want of delicacy than any deficiency of real kindness; for when Owen expressed himself somewhat hurt that these things should be recalled to memory in his present situation, the Glaswegian took him by the hand, and bade him "Cheer up a gliff!