1XFORMS(5) Forms Library XFORMS(5)
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6 xforms - A GUI Toolkit for X Window Systems
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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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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.)
26 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,
31 and Window/NT.
32 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
37 the library.
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40 All programs written using the Forms Library recognize the following
41 command line options
42 -display host:dpy
44 specifies the server to connect to.
45 -bw borderwidth
47 specifies the border width to use for built-in objects.
48 -flversion
50 prints the xforms version information.
51 -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.
55 -depth depth
57 requests a specific depth.
58 -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.
64 -sync runs the application in synchronous mode with debug level set to
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67 -private
69 requests a private colormap for the application.
70 -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
75 matching color is used.
76 -stdcmap
78 requests a standard colormap.
79 -name newname
81 specifies the application name under which resources are to be
82 obtained, rather than the default executable file name.
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85 fdesign(1L), fd2ps(1L)
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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 and Jens Thoms Toer‐
92 ring <jt@toerring.de>
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96 http://xforms-toolkit.org
97 http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/xforms/
98Version 1.0.92 October 2009 XFORMS(5)