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NAME

6       xforms -   A GUI Toolkit for X Window Systems
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SYNOPSIS

9       Forms  Library  for  X  (xforms) is a GUI toolkit and builder for the X
10       Window Systems and runs on all major UNIX platforms as well as  OpenVMS
11       and  OS2.   Forms  Library  is too complex to be described in the "man"
12       page format.  Ask your system administrator for  the  location  of  the
13       HTML,  PDF  or  PostScript  document  or  follow the links on the Forms
14       Library's home page for an online version of the documentation.
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DESCRIPTION

17       Forms Library is a graphical user interface toolkit based on Xlib for X
18       Window  Systems.  It  comes with a rich set of objects such as buttons,
19       browsers, sliders and menus integrated  into  an  elegant  event/object
20       callback  execution  model  that allows fast and easy construction of X
21       applications. In addition, the library has support for image  read  and
22       write,  format conversion and simple image processing. The library con‐
23       sists of a flexible set of C-routines that can be used  in  C  and  C++
24       programs  (As  of this writing, perl, ada95, pascal, scheme and Fortran
25       bindings to the Forms Library are in beta.)
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27       The library is efficient and portable and runs on all major Unix  plat‐
28       forms, including Sun, SGI, HP, DEC Alpha/OSF, IBM RS6000, Convex, Cray,
29       Linux,  FreeBSD,  NetBSD,  SCO,  Unixware,  OpenBSD  ,  BSDi,   DecSys‐
30       tem(mips)/Ultrix and others.  Non-unix platforms include OpenVMS, OS/2,
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33       Bundled with the library is also a Form designer, fdesign, which can be
34       used  to build interaction forms in a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you
35       get) way and to generate the corresponding C (or  any  of  the  binding
36       languages) code for you.  50+ demos in source code are distributed with
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OPTIONS

40       All programs written using the Forms Library  recognize  the  following
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43       -display host:dpy
44             specifies the server to connect to.
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46       -bw borderwidth
47             specifies the border width to use for built-in objects.
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50             prints the xforms version information.
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52       -visual visualName
53             requests  a  visual by name such as TrueColor etc. By default the
54             Forms Library always selects the visual that has the most depth.
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59       -fldebug level
60             generates some info about the state of the XForms.   where  level
61             is  an integer between 1-5 and controls the amount of information
62             to output. Depending on the options used when the  Forms  Library
63             was built, a level more than 3 might not be available.
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65       -sync runs  the application in synchronous mode with debug level set to
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69             requests a private colormap for the application.
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71       -shared
72             requests a shared colormap even if  the  application  needs  more
73             colors  than  available. For those colors that can't be allocated
74             in the shared colormap, substitutions are  made  so  the  closest
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77       -stdcmap
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80       -name  newname
81             specifies  the  application  name under which resources are to be
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SEE ALSO

85       fdesign(1L), fd2ps(1L)
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AUTHOR

89       Copyright (c) 1996-2002 T.C. Zhao, Mark Overmars and Steve Lamont
90       Since 2002: GNU Lesser General Public License
91       Maintainers: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes, Angus Leeming, Jens  Thoms  Toerring
92       <jt@toerring.de>
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HOME PAGE

96       http://xforms-toolkit.org
97       http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/xforms/
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