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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!laue.phys.uwm.edu!zhao From: zhao@laue.phys.uwm.edu (T.C. Zhao) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Announcing XForms V086 - X11 GUI toolkit and builder Date: 23 Mar 1997 06:46:50 GMT Organization: Surface labs, Dept. of Physics - UW-Milwaukee Lines: 40 Message-ID: <5h2jkq$gis@uwm.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.57.45 Keywords: GUI, X11, xforms Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5682 Versions of XForms V0.86 for NetBSD/i386, NetBSD/sparc and NetBSD/m68k are now available from http://bragg.phys.uwm.edu/xforms ftp://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/pub/xforms 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 interactive GUI builder that can be used to design dialogues in a WYSIWYG way and to output the corresponding UI code for you. - 250+ 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.