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From: zhao@laue.phys.uwm.edu (T.C. Zhao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.sys.dec.micro,comp.org.decus,comp.unix.osf.misc,comp.unix.osf.osf1
Subject: Announcing XForms V0.88 - X11 GUI toolkit and builder
Date: 10 Dec 1997 06:07:45 GMT
Organization: Surface labs, Dept. of Physics - UW-Milwaukee
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I am pleased to announce the availability of xforms V0.88 from

   http://bloch.phys.uwm.edu/xforms
   ftp://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/pub/xforms

for DEC alpha/OSF1 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 interactive GUI builder that can
  be used to design dialogues in a WYSIWYG way and to output the
  corresponding UI code for you.
- ~300 pages of indexed documentation (tutorial and reference) in both
  PostScript and html 

perl, ada95, and fortran bindings to xforms are in alpha/beta. 
Please visit the xforms' home page for more info.

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