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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
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FDESIGN(1L) Forms Library FDESIGN(1L) NAME
fdesign - Forms Library User Interface Designer SYNOPSIS
fdesign [-xformoptions] [-options] [files] DESCRIPTION
fdesign is a GUI builder that helps the construction of graphical user interface in a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) way by allow- ing the user to directly manipulate various objects, such as buttons, sliders and menus etc. Once a satisfactory UI is constructed, the user can save the composed interface into an external file containing some program code. When compiled, linked with the Forms Library, and executed, the generated code would, at run time (or print time for PostScript output), construct the exact same interfaces as those seen within fdesign. A variety of output language is possible via external filters. As of this writing, C, perl, ada95, Fortran, pascal, and PostScript output filters are known to exist. OPTIONS
fdesign accepts all standard Forms Library command line options as well as the following: -help Prints a brief summary of all command line options. This option does not require a connection to the X server. -version Prints the current version of fdesign and exits. -geometry geom Specifies the prefered size and location of main working area in which the UI is to be constructed. -convert fdfile-list This option prevents fdesign from attempting to make a connection to the X server. The file list following this flag is converted to C code directly. -dir destdir output any converted files in destdir. -unit pixel|point|mm|cp|cmm selects the unit of measure for object geometries. For non-pixel unit, the interface created is screen resolution independent and may be desirable for many applications. Note that for typical screens, point (about 1/72 inch) and mm may be too coarse and subject to round-off errors. Use cp (centi-point, 100th of a point) and cmm (centi-mm) instead. -altformat selects an alternative format for the generated C code where global variables are used for the UI components. -main requests the output of main program template. -callback requests the output of callback function template. -compensate requests the emission of font/server resolution variation compensation code. -I headerfile uses an alternative header file instead of the default forms.h in the output C code. -lax requests relaxed C syntax checking. -ps This option specifies that instead of emitting the c code for the user interface, PostScript code should be emitted. -ada This option requests ada95 code output -perl This option requests perl code output. -fortran This option requests Fortran code output. -pascal This option requests pascal code output. -nocode suppresses the output of UI code. Only the .fd file is written. The most useful Forms Library command line options are -display host:dpy This option specifies the X server to connect. -flversion This option prints the version string of the Forms Library, with which fdesign was build. -name appname This option specifies the application name under which resources are to be obtained, instead of the executable name. appname should not contain . or *. fdesign. RESOURCES
The program understands all of the Forms Library's resource names and classes as well as the following control.geometry (class Control.Geometry) specifies the geometry of the control panel. Currently the size is ignored. unit (Unit) specifies the default unit of measure. Default is pixel. attributes.geometry (class Attributes.Geometry) specifies the geometry of the object attributes panel. Currently the size is ignored. align.geometry (class Align.Geometry) specifies the geometry of the object align panel. Currently the size is ignored. xformsHeader (class XFormsHeader) specifies the header filename generated in the output C code. Default is forms.h filter (class Filter) specifies post-processing filter (an external executable name). language (class Language) specifies target language name. Among the standard Forms Library resources, the following are most useful xform.fontsize (class XFORM.FontSize) specifies the font size used for most object labels. xform.pupfontsize (class XFORM.PupFontSize) specifies the font size used in pop-up menus. xform.browserFontSize (class XFORM.BrowserFontSize) specifies the font size used for the text inside a browser. SEE ALSO
xforms(5), fd2ps(1L) AUTHOR
Copyright (c) 1996-2002 T.C. Zhao <tc_zhao@yahoo.com> and Mark Overmars <markov@cs.ruu.nl> 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 FDESIGN(1L)