Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.erols.net!newspump.sol.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!uwm.edu!laue.phys.uwm.edu!zhao From: zhao@laue.phys.uwm.edu (T.C. Zhao) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: XForms V0.81 for OpenBSD is now available Date: 22 Feb 1997 22:25:03 GMT Organization: Surface Labs, Dept. of Physics -- UW-Milwaukee Lines: 42 Message-ID: <5enrnv$4l3@uwm.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.57.45 Keywords: GUI, X11, software, xforms Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:1200 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2590 Versions of XForms V0.81 for OpenBSD (i386, sparc, alpha, pmax) are are now available from http://bragg.phys.uwm.edu/xforms ftp://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/pub/xforms XForms is also available for NetBSD (i386, sparc, m68k) FreeBSD 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 indexed documentation (tutorial and reference) in both PostScript and html perl, ada95, python and fortran bindings to xforms are in alpha/beta. Please visit the xforms' home page for more info.