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XFORMS

Section: Forms Library (5)
Updated: November 1997
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NAME

xforms - A GUI Toolkit for X Window Systems

SYNOPSIS

Forms Library for X (xforms) is a GUI toolkit and builder for the X Window Systems andruns on all major UNIX platforms as well as OpenVMS and OS2. Forms Libraryis too complex to be described in the "man" page format. Ask your system administrator for the location of the PostScriptdocument or follow the links on theForms Library'shome page for an html or PostScript version of the document.

DESCRIPTION

Forms Libraryis a graphical user interface toolkit based on Xlib for X WindowSystems. It comes with a rich set of objects such as buttons,browsers, sliders and menus integrated into an elegant event/objectcallback execution model that allows fast and easy constructionof X applications. The library consists of a flexible set ofC-routines that can be used in C and C++ programs (As of thiswriting, perl, ada95, and Fortran bindings to theForms Libraryare in beta.)

The library is efficient and portable and runs on all majorUnix platforms, including Sun, SGI, HP, DEC Alpha/OSF, IBM RS6000, Convex, Cray, Linux(i386, alpha, m68k, sparc), FreeBSD, NetBSD(i386, m68k, sparc, StrongARM), SCO, Unixware, OpenBSD (i386, pmax), DGUX (m88k), BSDi,DecSystem(mips)/Ultrix and others.Non-unix platforms include OpenVMS and OS/2.

Bundled with the library is also a Form designer,fdesign,which can be used to build interaction forms in a WYSIWYG(what you see is what you get) way and to generate the correspondingC (or any of the binding languages) code for you.50+ demos in source code are distributed with the library.

OPTIONS

All programs written using theForms Libraryrecognize the following command line options

-display host:dpy: specifies the server to connect to.
-bw borderwidth: specifies the border width to use for built-in objects.
-flversion: prints the xforms version information.
-visual visualName: requests a visual by name such as TrueColor etc. By default theForms Libraryalways selects the visual that has the most depth.
-depth depth: requests a specific depth.
-debug level: generates some info about the state of theXForms. where levelis an integer between 1-5 and controls the amount ofinformation to output. Depending on the options usedwhen theForms Librarywas built, a level more than 3 might not be available.
-sync: runs the application in synchronous mode with debug level set to 4.
-private: requests a private colormap for the application.
-shared: requests a shared colormap even if the application needs morecolors than available. For those colors that can't be allocatedin the shared colormap, substitutions are made so the closestmatching color is used.
-stdcmap: requests a standard colormap.
-name newname: specifies the application name under which resources are to beobtained, rather than the default executable file name.

AUTHOR

HOME PAGE

http://bragg.phys.uwm.edu/xforms http://bloch.phys.uwm.edu/xforms

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