XForms, an X port of Forms, is now available for testing

[T.C. Zhao]

Dear InterNetters,

I'm happy to announce the first public release of XForms, a graphical
user interface toolkit based on Xlib for X Window Systems. XForms is
a portable, efficient and upgraded native X11/ANSI-C port of Mark Overmars'
FORMS library. It comes with a rich set of objects such as buttons, browsers,
sliders, and menus integrated into an elegant event/object callback
execution model that allows fast and easy construction of powerful
X-applications. Performance has been optimized so XForms works well on
small systems and over slow network connections. The toolkit has already
been ported onto a variety of systems, including Sun, DEC Alpha/OSF1,
HP, IBM RS6000, Linux, Cray, Convex and DecSystem/Ultrix.

XForms comes bundled with

- precompiled Irix4, Irix5 and Irix6 libforms.a library and forms.h header;
- source code for 45+ demonstration programs;
- precompiled fdesign, an advanced interactive GUI builder;
- documentation describing the differences between X and GL Forms.

Please note that unlike GL FORMS, XForms is not in the public domain.
However, use of the package is free and unrestricted for the development
of non-commercial and free software. Also note that XForms is
still being developed, thus further (minor) API changes are possible.
Due to the lack of a complete documentation, the current release is best
suited to people that already have some experience with the IrisGL FORMS.

FTP INSTRUCTIONS
The XForms package is available via anonymous ftp from
bloch.phys.uwm.edu (129.89.57.24), directory [pub/xforms].

DISCLAIMER
XForms is copyright (C) by T.C.Zhao and Mark Overmars. All rights reserved.
People interested in commercial use of XForms must contact the authors.
XForms is provided to you 'as is' without any expressed or implied warranty,
or fitness for any particular purpose. In no event shall we be liable for
any damages resulted from the use or misuse of XForms.

--
T.C. -- Starving Physicist