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 PostScript document or follow the links on the Forms Library's home
14 page for an html or PostScript version of the document.
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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(i386, alpha, m68k, sparc), FreeBSD, NetBSD(i386, m68k, sparc,
30 StrongARM, ppc), SCO, Unixware, OpenBSD (i386, pmax), DGUX (m88k,
31 i386), BSDi, DecSystem(mips)/Ultrix and others. Non-unix platforms
32 include OpenVMS, OS/2, and Window/NT.
33 Bundled with the library is also a Form designer, fdesign, which can be
35 used to build interaction forms in a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you
36 get) way and to generate the corresponding C (or any of the binding
37 languages) code for you. 50+ demos in source code are distributed with
38 the library.
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41 All programs written using the Forms Library recognize the following
42 command line options
43 -display host:dpy
45 specifies the server to connect to.
46 -bw borderwidth
48 specifies the border width to use for built-in objects.
49 -flversion
51 prints the xforms version information.
52 -visual visualName
54 requests a visual by name such as TrueColor etc. By default the
55 Forms Library always selects the visual that has the most depth.
56 -depth depth
58 requests a specific depth.
59 -debug level
61 generates some info about the state of the XForms. where level
62 is an integer between 1-5 and controls the amount of information
63 to output. Depending on the options used when the Forms Library
64 was built, a level more than 3 might not be available.
65 -sync runs the application in synchronous mode with debug level set to
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68 -private
70 requests a private colormap for the application.
71 -shared
73 requests a shared colormap even if the application needs more
74 colors than available. For those colors that can't be allocated
75 in the shared colormap, substitutions are made so the closest
76 matching color is used.
77 -stdcmap
79 requests a standard colormap.
80 -name newname
82 specifies the application name under which resources are to be
83 obtained, rather than the default executable file name.
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86 fdesign(1L), fd2ps(1L)
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90 Copyright (c) 1996-2000 T.C. Zhao (tc_zhao@yahoo.com) and Mark Overmars
91 (markov@cs.ruu.nl).
92 Parts also Copyright (c) 1999-2000 T.C. Zhao and Steve Lamont
93 (spl@ucsd.edu)
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96 http://world.std.com/~xforms
97Version 0.89 June 2000 XFORMS(5)