XForms:
GUI toolkit for X11
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Hints concerning XForms Library
The term XForms is an abbreviation for Forms Library, A Graphical User Interface Toolkit for X
XForms is a very lean grapics library. Developped several years ago by T.C.Zhao and Mark Overmars, it still offers
a good base for application development under X11.
Part of Xforms is a real fine documentation and a set of many small example programs which enable even beginners
a quick application development.
Xforms is highly portable.
The following sentence from the documentation says enough about portability and the fitness for systems that do not have KDE or Gnome:
The library uses only the services provided by the Xlib and should run on all workstations that have X installed on them.
Paying attention to downward compatibility is strictly rule to the further development of Xforms. For that, Xforms still is used in much
universitary research projects.
Unfortunately, newadays some distributions do not contain XForms any more.
The XForms Homepage contains some interesting informations,
as well you can find some screen shots of applications from science and industrial automation.
Xforms is easy to install:
- Download von der XForms Downloadpage.
Chose xforms-1.0.91pre14.tar.gz or xforms-1.0.92.tar.gz or higher.
Hint: It is shurely a good idea to download the documentation file "xforms.pdf".
Hint: Xforms needs the Xpm-library. This is part of each distribution.
- Unpack the archive into a directorys and change into it. Then:
- ./configure
- make
The next commands need root privileges:
Thereafter the Xforms libraries are installed, also the GUI designer program "fdesign". "fdesign" can be found in /usr/local/bin.
While linking of xforms applications maybe you will need the option -lXpm.
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2010-02-06 02:06:45
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