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FOX is a C++-based toolkit for GUI development. It includes a rich set of widgets and has powerful yet simple layout managers, MDI widgets, and mega-widgets. FOX incorporates support for XDND for drag and drop, X clipboard and X Selection, watching other I/O channels and sockets, timers and idle processing, object serialization and deserialization, a registry to save persistent settings, and 3D widgets using Mesa or OpenGL. FOX works on Linux, IRIX, Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, Tru64 Unix, Windows 9x,NT,2K (VC++, GNUWIN32, Borland, VisualAge C++), FreeBSD, and Sequent. License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)Changes:
This release adds 3DConnexion SpaceNavigator support (currently under Unix only). The SpaceNavigator device is a 6DOF motion controller. The FXGLViewer now has build in support (rotation, panning, and zooming) for this device as well. Revamped OpenGL support with GLX 1.3 or higher (frame buffer config supprt). A flag to force visual ID in FXVisual, which allows you to create a 2D drawable with a compatible visual to a 3D drawable. Spinlock support on Windows was added. FXGLCanvas now has the ability to use externally created FXGLContext (thus FXGLContext may be shared across different viewers).

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