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From: zhao@laue.phys.uwm.edu (T.C. Zhao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce
Subject: Announcing XForms 0.81-GUI toolkit and builder- for FreeBSD
Date: 1 Jul 1996 11:48:04 -0500
Organization: Surface Labs, Dept. of Physics -- UW-Milwaukee
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Keywords: GUI, X11, xforms, software
XForms V0.81 is available from
http://bragg.phys.uwm.edu/xforms
ftp://laue.phys.uwm.edu/pub/xforms/test
for FreeBSD and other platforms
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 as 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 (on SGI) and
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);
perl, ada95 and python bindings to xforms are in alpha/beta. Please
visit the xforms' home page for more info.
--
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