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From: zhao@laue.phys.uwm.edu (T.C. Zhao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.announce
Subject: SOFTWARE: XForms V0.81 GUI toolkit and builder for BSDI
Date: 5 Sep 1996 08:15:54 -0400
Organization: Surface labs, Dept. of Physics - UW-Milwaukee
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[Clearing a backlog of unposted articles ... my apologies.  --th]


XForms V0.81 is available from

http://bragg.phys.uwm.edu/xforms
ftp://laue.phys.uwm.edu/pub/xforms/test

for BSDI and other 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 and python bindings to xforms are in alpha/beta. Please
visit the xforms' home page for more info.

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                            |     I am Pentium of Borg.
T.C. -- Starving Physicist  |     Division is futile.
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