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From: zhao@bloch.phys.uwm.edu (T.C. Zhao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Announcing XForms V0.75 for NetBSD/i386
Date: 25 Jul 1995 14:31:14 GMT
Organization: Surface Labs, Dept. of Physics -- UM-Milwaukee
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Message-ID: <3v2v7i$lsb@uwm.edu>
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Keywords: xforms, gui, software
I am pleased to announce the release of XForms V0.75 for the
NetBSD/i386 platform.
What is XForms:
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XForms is a graphical user interface toolkit and builder based on Xlib
for X Window Systems. XForms is a portable and efficient C library
that can be used in both C and C++ programs. The library works in
all visuals and all depths (1-24) and comes with a rich set of
objects such as buttons (of many flavors, including color XPMs labels) ,
browsers, sliders, and menus integrated into an elegant event/object
callback execution model that allows fast and easy construction of
X-applications. It also has OpenGL/Mesa support.
The Forms Library is very intuitive and simple to use. It is by
far the easiest-to-learn and easiest-to-use system for X GUI
development. You can start writing XForms based programs within an
hour once you go though the first five pages of the documentation
and have run and read a couple of the demos. Actually, you don't
have to write any code, the bundled GUI builder will do it for you.
XForms comes bundled with
- Precompiled library (static and shared) and header files.
- Source code for 50+ demonstration programs;
- Precompiled fdesign, an advanced interactive GUI builder that can
be used to design dialogues in a WYSIWYG way and to output the
corresponding C code for you.
- ~200 pages of documentation (tutorial and reference);
Copyright Status:
Copyright (c) 1995, T.C. Zhao & Mark Overmars.
Free for non-commercial use.
In addition to i385/NetBSD, XFroms is also available for the
following platforms:
SGI
SUN (SunOS and Solaris)
HP/HP-UX
IBM/RS6000
DecAlpha/OSF
DecStation/Ultrix
i386/Linux
i386/FreeBSD
i386/BSDi
Convex
Cray-C90
Cray-YMP
Where: The XForms package is available from
http://bragg.phys.uwm.edu/xforms
ftp://bloch.phys.uwm.edu/pub/xforms
Europe Mirror sites:
ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/XFORMS
For mailing list or other info, browse http://bragg.phys.uwm.edu/xforms
--
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