XFORMS(5)							   Forms Library							 XFORMS(5)

NAME

       xforms -   A GUI Toolkit for X Window Systems

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       Forms  Library  is  a graphical user interface toolkit based on Xlib for X Window Systems. It comes with a rich set of objects such as but-
       tons, browsers, sliders and menus integrated into an elegant event/object callback execution model that allows fast and	easy  construction
       of  X  applications.  In  addition,  the  library  has support for image read and write, format conversion and simple image processing. The
       library consists of a flexible set of C-routines that can be used in C and C++ programs (As of this writing, perl,  ada95,  pascal,  scheme
       and Fortran bindings to the Forms Library are in beta.)

       The  library  is  efficient  and  portable and runs on all major Unix platforms, including Sun, SGI, HP, DEC Alpha/OSF, IBM RS6000, Convex,
       Cray, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, SCO, Unixware, OpenBSD , BSDi, DecSystem(mips)/Ultrix and others.	Non-unix platforms include OpenVMS,  OS/2,
       and Window/NT.

       Bundled	with the library is also a Form designer, fdesign, which can be used to build interaction forms in a WYSIWYG (what you see is what
       you get) way and to generate the corresponding C (or any of the binding languages) code for you.  50+ demos in source code are  distributed
       with the library.

OPTIONS

       All programs written using the Forms Library recognize the following command line options

       -display host:dpy
	     specifies the server to connect to.

       -bw borderwidth
	     specifies the border width to use for built-in objects.

       -flversion
	     prints the xforms version information.

       -visual visualName
	     requests a visual by name such as TrueColor etc. By default the Forms Library always selects the visual that has the most depth.

       -depth depth
	     requests a specific depth.

       -fldebug level
	     generates	some  info about the state of the XForms.  where level is an integer between 1-5 and controls the amount of information to
	     output. Depending on the options used when the Forms Library was built, a level more than 3 might not be available.

       -sync runs the application in synchronous mode with debug level set to 4.

       -private
	     requests a private colormap for the application.

       -shared
	     requests a shared colormap even if the application needs more colors than available. For those colors that can't be allocated in  the
	     shared colormap, substitutions are made so the closest matching color is used.

       -stdcmap
	     requests a standard colormap.

       -name  newname
	     specifies the application name under which resources are to be obtained, rather than the default executable file name.

SEE ALSO

       fdesign(1L), fd2ps(1L)

AUTHOR

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

HOME PAGE

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

Version 1.0.92							   October 2009 							 XFORMS(5)