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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!newsfeed.dacom.co.kr!usenet.dacom.co.kr!news.postech.ac.kr!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!ames!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!laue.phys.uwm.edu!zhao From: zhao@laue.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: XForms V0.81 - X GUI toolkit and builder - For NetBSD Date: 7 Oct 1996 00:18:08 GMT Organization: Surface Labs, Dept. of Physics -- UW-Milwaukee Lines: 44 Message-ID: <539i80$t7f@uwm.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.57.45 Keywords: xforms, GUI, X11 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4710 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1384 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:1140 comp.os.386bsd.apps:1749 comp.unix.bsd:16836 XForms V0.81 is available from http://bragg.phys.uwm.edu/xforms ftp://laue.phys.uwm.edu/pub/xforms for NetBDS/i386, NetBSD/Sparc, NetBSD/m68k(amiga) and other Unix platforms What is XForms -------------- 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, python and fortran bindings to xforms are in alpha/beta. Please visit the xforms' home page for more info. -- | I am Pentium of Borg. T.C. -- Starving Physicist | Division is futile. | You will be Approximated.