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FORMS for X?


  • To: forms at cs.ruu.nl
  • Subject: FORMS for X?
  • From: slevy
  • Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 12:26:19 CST

I'm curious whether anyone has considered porting FORMS as an X toolkit --
not in the sense of GL/X, but as a toolkit depending only on X, i.e.
supporting user interfaces for possibly-non-SGI X-based systems.  The issues I
imagine would need to be resolved are related to events (X events are richer
than GL's, but correspond tolerably well I think), color handling
(maybe an emulation library to choose a decent real color or dither-pattern,
given a requested color and whatever the X server offers, would do) and fonts
(here I'm unsure of a good way to go, but there may be hope if only a modest
set of fonts is promised as in FORMS 2.0).  With such an environment X
might be almost usable.  Anyone thought about this?

   Stuart Levy, Geometry Center, University of Minnesota
   slevy at geom.umn.edu


 
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