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XForms V0.81 - X GUI toolkit and builder - is released

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T.C. Zhao

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Jun 30, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/30/96
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I am pleased to announce the release of XForms V0.81. This
new version is available from

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

for FreeBSD/i386 and other platforms

What is XForms
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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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T.C. -- Starving Physicist | Division is futile.
| You will be Approximated.

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