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From: zhao@bloch.phys.uwm.edu (T.C. Zhao)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: XForms available for BSD/OS
Approved: tomh@metrics.com
Sender: tomh@metrics.com (Tom Haapanen)
Organization: Surface Labs, Dept. of Physics -- UW-Milwaukee
Message-ID: <DDGKrI.Jpu@metrics.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 14:11:42 GMT
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I am pleased to announce the availability of XForms on BSDi/i386.
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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 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);
In addition to the BSDi/i386 platform, XForms is also available for
i386/Linux
i386/FreeBSD
i386/NetBSD
SUN (SunOS and Solaris)
SGI (4.x, 5.3, 6.0)
HP/HP-UX
IBM/RS6000
DecAlpha/OSF1
DecStation(mips)/Ultrix
Convex
Cray-C90
Cray-YMP
FTP INSTRUCTIONS
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
Other Info
Mailing list:
There is a mailing list for XForms to subscribe and unsubscribe, send
a mail message to
xforms-request@cs.ruu.nl
with
subscribe (your name) emailaddress or
unsubscribe (your name) emailaddress or
as the subject.
To contribute, send your messages to xforms@cs.ruu.nl. Remember your
message will be sent to hundreds of people.
Please do not send sub/unsub message to the mailing list.
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