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Subject: OPEN LOOK GUI FAQ 04/04: List of programs with an OPEN LOOK UI
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look,alt.toolkits.xview,comp.windows.news,alt.sys.sun,alt.toolkits.intrinsics,comp.answers,alt.answers,news.answers
From: [e-mail] (Liam Quin)
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 94 22:06:27 GMT

Archive-name: open-look/04-program-list


$Id: open-look-programs.faq,v 1.22 93/11/12 21:03:50 lee Exp $

Contents:
    Subject: Applications: Application Builders
    Subject: Applications: Graphing Tools
    Subject: Applications: Utilities
    Subject: Applications: Other
    Subject: Tools: Terminal Emulators
    Subject: Other Commercial Applications
    Subject: Applications: toolkit Extensions
    Subject: OpenWindows 3 Ports
    Subject: XView 3 Ports
    Subject: XView 2 Ports
    Subject: Games (free and commercial)


Subject: Applications: Application Builders

Commercial: DevGuide 3.0
Contact: SunSoft
    lets you use Drag and Drop to create an OPEN LOOK application with
    XView, OLIT, TNT.  Very easy to use.  UIT also supports Guide files.

Free: dirt
    there _might_ be an OLIT port of this UI builder.

Commercial: ExoCode
Contact: Expert Object
    one of the first third-party GUI builders to support OPEN LOOK,
    using the XView toolkit.  It was reviewed in SunExpert magazine
    in 1990.

Commercial: ObjectBuilder
Contact: ParcPlace, Debra Frances [e-mail], [phone]
    uib is a user interface builder which supports building applications
    that support both OPEN LOOK and Motif.    It generates code for
    ParcPlace's OI C++ toolkit and can make use of user created
    subclasses.  Note: `OI' can also display an OSF/Motif GUI at runtime.

Free: wcl
    Uses X resources to specify an Xt widget hierarchy and actions to
    user-defined callbacks.  uses OLIT, Xt or Motif.

Commercial: XVT
Contact: XVT Systems ([phone] or Email "[e-mail]")
    Lets you write portable code by providing a thin layer API which sits
    on top of the native GUI toolkit.  Write your application in this
    abstracted GUI and the toolkit translates into native GUI calls on
    OPEN LOOK, Motif, Microsoft Windows, NT, Macintosh, OS/2, and
    character terminals.  Includes GUI builder for XVT C toolkit or XVT C++
    class library.  XVT is the base document for the emerging IEEE 1201.1
    Uniform (GUI) API standard.
Note:
    It's been said on the net that XVT provides a common subset of the various
    systems, with limited functionality, but I don't know how limited it is --
    the best answer is probably to look and see if it meets your needs.


Subject: Applications: Graphing Tools

Free: dstool
    XView-based program that plots Lorenz Attractors and other chaotic things
    in real time.  Also includes a mathematical expression interpreter.
    ftp: macomb.tn.cornell.edu

Free: ACE/gr --  graph and analysis program, xvgr
Ftp: ftp.ccalmr.ogi.edu [129.95.72.34]; xvgr-2.09.tar.Z in /CCALMR/pub/acegr
    Handles x-y scatterplots, lineplots, bargraphs, FFT analysis, running
    averages, polynomial fits, etc.

Free: robot - a scientific graph plotting and data analysis tool
Contact: Robin Corbet <[e-mail]>
Description:
    Graph plotting in various styles & axes; Data manipulation - arithmetic,
    functions, smoothing, folding, sorting; Fitting to data using Gaussians,
    polynomials, Lorentzians, and/or user defined functions; Annotation of
    graphs; log files;  Commands with loops etc.; Colour; PostScript output.
Ftp: astrod.astro.psu.edu (128.118.147.28) in pub/astrod
Ftp: files: robotx0.35.tar.Z - everything
Ftp: files: RobotManual.ps.Z - just the documentation.
Ftp: files: robot.sun4.Z  - binary built on a SPARCstation.
Requirements:
    Robot is XView based. User interface portions of code are written in
    'C'. Data manipulation code is written in FORTRAN. Hence a FORTRAN
    compiler is also required or the public domain f2c package.
    Alternatively, a SPARC binary is available by anonymous ftp.

Subject: Applications: Utilities

Free: boss
Description:
    An OPEN LOOK UI to the Casio BOSS scheduler

Free: props
Ftp: export.lcs.mit.edu /pub/R5untarred/contrib/lib/xview3/clients/props/*
Description:
    This is the OpenWindows properties editor, that appears when you choose
    the Properties... item from the WorkSpace menu.

Free: contool
Ftp: from export.lcs.mit.edu
Description:
    a special-purpose console-window that can filter out or take special
    action on specified console messages; written by Chuck Musciano.
Requirements: XView

Free: faces
Description:
    displays pictures of people who have sent you electronic mail.
    Violates the Data Protection Act in the U.K.

Subject: Applications: Other


Commercial: Bimail 400
Contact: BIM (+32-2-759.59.25) [e-mail]
X.400-address: C=be;A=RTT;P=BIM;O=Horizon;S=Geurts;G=Patrick
Notes:
    Bimail is a complete X.400 electronic mail system.  It consists
    in a user interface which gives access to all X.400 services
    with a consistent look and feel, a message transfer agent (MTA) system
    which can transfer messages over X.25, TP.4 and TCP/IP (using RFC 1006).
    A gateway to SMTP mail is also available.

Free: calentool
Description:
    a day/week/month/year at-a-glance calendar and almanac.
Ftp: export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/calentool2.2Xp1.tar.Z
Contact: Bill Randle, Tektronix, Inc. <[e-mail]>

Free: emacstool
Description:
    a SunView program that was converted to XView, and is included with the
GNU emacs distribution.

Free: Genix
Contact: Ian Darwin <[e-mail]>
    A genealogy program, written in C using Guide.
    Incomplete as of Jan '93; inquire for details.

Free: WorkMan - Audio CD player for X11 (Sun, Ultrix, HPUX, Linux)
Requirements: XView libraries
Ftp: Source; sample database; Ultrix, HP binaries: ftp.hyperion.com in /WorkMan
Contact: [e-mail] (Steven Grimm)


Free: pan - Postit notes

Free: WAIS
Ftp: sunsite.unc.edu
Description:
    Networked, distributed text-retrieval system.  OLIT-based front end.
Notes:
    You might to need to add -lce to the Makefile.

Free: xrolo - Rolodex card index/address book

Free: xv_display
Description:
    An XView program for showing a text file, like more(1).

Commercial:  SearchIt 1.0
Contact: SunSoft or SunExpress
    US: 1-800-873-7869;  UK: 0800 89 88 88
    Germany: 01 30 81 61 91;  France: 05 90 61 57
Platforms: SPARC, Solaris 1.x
Price: $249
Notes:
    SearchIt is a full text search and retrieval application designed to
    improve individual and group productivity.  It makes an index to files
    and can later retrieve documents by words or phrases, ranking the results
    in relevance order.

Commercial: ShowMe
Contact: SunSoft
Notes:
    Conferencing software that lets multiple connected users share the same
    drawing screen, with bitmap capture and moveable pointer.
Requirements:
    You can only run one ShowMe per computer, so you have to have a CPU per
    conference member.

Free: xvman - Man Pages viewer

Free: xvtdl - ToDo List manager
Ftp: export.lcs.mit.edu /contrib/xvtdl-4.0.tar.Z, /contrib/xvtdl-4.0-README
Requirements: XView libraries
Contact: Mike Jipping [e-mail]  (BITNET: JIPPING@HOPE)
Organisation: Hope College Department of Computer Science

Free: name_finder
Contact: [e-mail]     [phone]
Ftp: ftp.eng.auburn.edu [131.204.10.91] pub/name_finder1.2.tar.Z.
Patches: pub/name_finder1.2.compile.patch1.
Requirements: OpenWindows 3.0, C++ 2.1 or greater to recompile
Description:
    name_finder was orginally designed as a replacement for the name finder
    missing from the OpenWindows Version 3.0 mailtool.  It has since grown
    into a tool for several electronic mail related activities including:
    interaction with local ListServ robots for handling mail lists,
    requesting Full.Name style mail aliases from your local PostMaster, and
    providing mailbox status information ala finger(1).

    name_finder is written in C++ (cfront 2.1) using gxv++ version 1.1.
    If you don't have access to a C++ compiler, a precompiled sparc
    executable is included in the distribution.

Free: bibcard    interface for BiBTeX databases
Requirements: XView
Ftp: iamsun.unibe.ch [130.92.64.10] in /X11/Bibcard-1.11.tar.Z
Ftp:     includes source and SPARC binary for SunOS 4.1.1.
Version: 1.11
Description:
    GUI for mantaining bibliography databases which can be used with
    LaTeX, TeX and FrameMaker


Free: moxftp -- interface to ftp.
Ftp: ftp.chpc.utexas.edu as file /packages/X/xftp.1.1.tar.Z.
Contact: Bill Jones [e-mail]
Requirements: X11, OLIT or Motif or Athena widgets
Notes:
    formerly called xftp.
    compiles under (at least) Ultrix, AIX 3.1.5, AIX 3.2, Convex OS, SunOS,
    Unicos 6.1.4, and IRIX.  Uses OLIT.
    BUG: can also use OSF/Motif and Athena widgets.


Free: olvwm -- OPEN LOOK Virtual Window Manager
contact: Scott Oaks
Ftp: export.lcs.mit.edu in the contrib directory
Patches: there are two patches
Requirements: XView 3
Description:
    Olvwm is a version of olwm that manages a `virtual desktop' (hence the
    `v' in its name).  It shows a little map on the screen, with the
    currently displayed area represented by a little rectangle.     You can
    move around by dragging the rectangle or with the arrow keys.  This
    lets you run several clients (applications) and move the display around
    from one to the other.  Olvwm was derived from the OpenWindows 3.0 olwm.

Free: ftptool -- OPEN LOOK front-end to ftp
Requirements: XView
Ftp: export.lcs.mit.edu in /contrib

Free: Hyperlook
Contact: The Turing Institute
Requirements: OpenWindows 3 (running the xnews server, not X11)
    Hypertext package written entirely in NeWS.  Runtime from turing.com
    in /pub or ftp.uu.net (graphics/NeWS/HyperLook1.5-runtime.tar.Z)

Maestro (ftp from sioux.stanford.edu)
    Multimedia authoring tools, including support for sound, text & video.
xvnews (ftp from export.lcs.mit.edu)
    An xview-based newsreader for netnews.

Free: xvttool
Ftp: cs.dal.ca:/pub/comp.archives
Ftp: nuri.inria.fr:/X/contrib/clients
Ftp: lth.se:/pub/netnews/alt.sources/volume92/dec/xvttool*.Z
Ftp: src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/usenet/comp.archives/x11/terminal/xvttool
Description:
    A vt100/102 emulator, in both XView and SunView versions.  Includes
    buttons for the PF keys, etc.

Subject: PostScript and Graphics Viewers

Commercial: pageview - PostScript previewer
Contact: Included in OpenWindows as part of DeskSet.
Notes:
    Type 1 support only in OpenWindows 3.0.1 under Solaris 2.1.
    Antialiasing support - with colour OpenWindows 3 try pageview -aa -dpi 150
    Note that pageview uses the X11/NeWS server to interpret the PostScript,
    and thus won't run on an X terminal or other non-OpenWindows server.
    It's *not* enough to be runing an OPEN LOOK UI [tm] window manager such
    as olwm.

Commercial: xps - PostScript program editor and previewer
Contact: included with OpenWindows 2.0 under demo and share/src
Notes:
    Only runs under OpenWindows 2.

Commercial: psh
Contact: included with OpenWindows
    simple interface to NeWS and the OpenWindows server

Free: ralpage
Ftp: export.lcs.mit.edu in contrib/clients
Notes:
    Crispin Goswell's PostScript interpreter, much hacked.
    Not OPEN LOOK compliant.  No Type 1 font support.
    There are other versions of this called `xps', `postscript', etc.;
    don't confuse this `xps' with the one mentioned above.

Free: ghostscript
(from the Free Software Foundation)
    Supports Type 1 fonts.  Not OPEN LOOK based.


Subject: Tools: Terminal Emulators

Free: cmdtool, shelltool
Requirements: XView 3 toolkit
Notes:
    These are included in the XView source distribution from
    export.lcs.mit.edu in /contrib; they're also included with Sun's
    OpenWindows.

Commercial: SwitchTerm
Contact: Micro Resources Inc., Columnbus, Ohio, USA, [phone]
Notes:
    A version of Xterm with an OPEN LOOK UI, print interface,
    ANSI X3.64 colour escape sequences, etc.

Commercial: IsoTerm
Contact: The Bristol Group Ltd., [phone] and (49) 6105-2945 (Germany)
Requirements: OpenWindows 3 (??)
Other Products: IsoTeX, IsoFax, Power Base
Notes:
    An OLIT-based terminal emulator.  I couldn't get the demo version to
    give me a shell prompt, although it did look like it was a pretty fll
    vt340 emulation, with double-height characters, colour, fonts, grahics
    and so forth.
    With the Union Flag (the British flag) as their logo I somehow expected
    an English address, perhaps in Bristol...

Subject: Other Commercial Applications

    Contact SunSoft (or Sun) and ask for the Catalyst OPEN LOOK guide,
    which lists over 200 pages of applications.

    You can also get the free CDWare CD/ROM, which contains demo versions
    of several popular OPEN LOOK UI applications.  Once you've done this,
    you can often simply contact the vendor concerned to have the license
    upgraded from demo, and receive the full product documentation.


Product Name: Author/Editor - SGML-based text editor/word processor
Company Name: SoftQuad Inc., [phone], [e-mail]
Description:
    Word processor or text editor that manipulates ISO 8879 SGML documents.
Interfaces: OPEN LOOK UI (XView), OSF/Motif, Mac, MS/Windows


Product Name: Poplog
Contact (Educational):
    Poplog Sales,
    School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, Brighton, BN1 9QN, England
Phone: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
Contact (Educational, USA):
    Computable Functions Inc. 35 South Orchard Drive, Amherst, MA 01002, USA
Phone: [phone]
Contact (Other):
    Integral Solutions Ltd., Unit 3, Campbell Court, Bramley,
    Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG26 5EG, England.
Phone:  [phone]
Fax:    [phone]
Email:  [e-mail]
Interfaces: OPEN LOOK, Motif, Athena, Custom (poplog)
Platforms: Sun, DEC, Solbourne, MIPS, Silicon Graphics, HP, VAX, 386 soon
Source-Available: Libraries: Yes; System: Academic only.
Description:
    A integrated programming environment consisting of Pop-11, Prolog,
    Standard ML, and Lisp, all compiled to machine code via a common virtual
    machine.  Pop-11 provides a rich interface to the X Toolkit from all the
    Poplog languages.  The OLIT, Motif, and Athena widget sets are supported,
    and also the custom Poplog (Xpw) widget set.  Includes XVed, a customisable
    multi-window editor.  Under the OPEN LOOK UI and OSF/Motif the Poplog User
    Interface (PUI) provides a graphical interface to the Poplog system.
    High-level libraries allow graph drawing, turtle graphics, and the simple
    creation of basic button/menu based interfaces.


Subject: Applications: toolkit Extensions


Product Name:     Xtra XWidgets
Company Name:     Graphical Software Technology
E-Mail:           [e-mail]
Phone:            310-328-9338;    Fax: [phone]
Keywords:         graphics, library, widgets, spreadsheet, help
Interfaces:       OPEN LOOK, Motif
Platforms:        SPARC, HP9000s300/400/700, IBM RS6000, Interactive 386
Requirements:     X11, Xt, Xol (or Xm) libraries and headers; X11
Price:            $795/single user, $3000/network, $5000/source
Support-Price:    $400/30 calls
Source-Available: yes
Description:
    The Xtra XWidget library contains a set of widgets that are subclassed
    from and compatible with either OLIT or Motif widgets.  The library
    includes widgets that implement the following: Spreadsheet, Bar Graph,
    Stacked Bar Graph, Line Graph, Pie Chart, XY Plot, Hypertext, Hypertext
    based Help System, and Data Entry Form.  Widgets have been successfully
    integrated with both TeleUSE from Telesoft and Builder Xcessory from
    ICS.  A free demo is available for any of the supported platforms.

Product Name:     XRT/Graph
Company Name:     KL Group
E-mail: sun.com!suncan!klg!info, [e-mail]
Phone: [phone]
Description:
    XRT/graph is a graph object that extends the XView toolkit;  There are
    also Xt versions for OLIT and Motif.  XRT/graph supports line plots,
    scatter-plots, strip-charts, bar charts, stacking bar charts, pie charts
    and filled-area charts, singly and in combination.  It supports real-time
    updates, true Postscript output, and intelligent user feedback.  It comes
    with Builder, a graph prototyping tool, which supports code & resource
    file generation.  A free demo (vmgraph) is available.
    There are free integration kits for UIM/X, TeleUSE, and Builder Xcessory
    (others in progress).
Availability:
    XRT/graph for XView and OLIT are only available on SPARC.
    XRT/graph for Motif is available on a dozen or so platforms.


Free: Slingshot XView extension

    Slingshot provides rectangles (like the Xt Intrinsics' RectObj gadget),
    drag-and-drop support, images, icons and text, trees, lines, arrows...

    Get it by ftp from export.lcs.mit.edu, in /contrib/SlingShot2.0.tar.Z
    (remember to use binary mode in ftp!).
    You may also be able to get it by ftp to ftp.x.org in /contrib.
    The mail server has been withdrawn.


Ada bindings for XView
    Sun Ada 1.1 includes among other things an Ada Source Code Generator
    for Devguide.  It uses the Verdix XView Ada bindings.
    It does not yet [July 1992] support gfm (the guide file manager).

C++ Bindings for XView

Qualix's XV++.

UIT


Subject: OpenWindows 3 Ports

    Sun: SPARC, SunOS 4.1
    Sun: SPARC, Solaris 2 (actually 3.0.1?)
    others: none so far...

There are said (by Sun) to be two or three ports of OpenWindows either
available now or in progress.  Contact Anthony Flynn at Open Vistas
International ([e-mail]) for more information.  (originally they
said 35, but perhaps they meant 3.5)

OpenWindows source is available - commercially, it costs about $5,000 for
the server, including TypeScaler and the toolkits; deskset (filemgr etc) is
another $25,000; ToolTalk is $40,000 or so.


Subject: XView 3 Ports

What: XView 3
System: Apple A/UX
Porter: [e-mail] (Lou Jones)
Ftp: encyclo.jax.org
Notes:
    The libraries and utilities (olwm, cmdtool, etc) are available for
    anonymous ftp from encyclo.jax.org. I used gcc 2.1 to compile the
    sources. If there is enough interest, I can make the diffs
    available.

System: Concurrent 7000 (68040 based)
Porter: [e-mail] (Sinan Karasu)

System: DECStation/Ultrix
Porter: [e-mail] (Dave Scott)
Ftp: media-lab.media.mit.edu:~ftp/xview3-ultrix.4.2-mips.tar.Z
Notes:
    Let me stress that this is *not* fully tested, but seems to work
    pretty well.  Please let me know about any problems you find.
    Problems I already know about:
    Large buttons under *any* non-Sun X server (non-xnews; i.e. any
    standard MIT X11R[45] server) have the bottom of the button
    chopped off.  We're working on this one. :-)
    XView 3 is also available on the DEC Freeware CD, from DECUS.
[actually this seems *not* to be Dave Scott's port; please accept my apologies
 for listing this incorrectly.  A correct entry will appear as soon as I get
 the necessary information.  -- Lee]

System: HP 720
Porter: (?)
Ftp: tesla.ucd.ie [137.43.24.44], /pub
Notes:
    Includes HP 720 build, HP XView patch file, Xvgr.

System: HP9000/300 series
Porter: [e-mail] (Tim Chown)

System: HP9000/7XX series
Ftp: ftp.csc.liv.ac.uk (138.253.42.172) hpux/X11/xview-3.part[123].tar.Z

System: Intel (SysVR4/i386)
Porter: [e-mail] (David Dawes)
Ftp: ftp.physics.su.oz.au, suphys.physics.su.oz.au  /Esix_4/x11r5 hierarchy
Notes:
    His patches were for Esix 4.0.3 but should work on DELL, ISC and Intel
    SVR4 with no worries. The files are README.xview3 and xview3.diff.Z.
See Also: linux

System: IBM RS/6000
Porter: [e-mail] (Tom McConnell)
Compiler: bsdcc
Ftp: export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/xview3/Fixes/xview3_rs6k_unofficial.patch.Z
Notes:
    There is still a problem with tty support for the RS/6000. For
    instance, the cmdtool will not work. Still, most everything else works.
    For those of you who have already installed my previous patch, I have
    put a separate patch for just the shared library problem. This file is
    contrib/xview3/Fixes/xview3_rs6k_XView_lib.patch.Z.

System: linux
Porter: Kenneth Osterberg <[e-mail]>
ICompiler: gcc 2.3.3, libc4.2
Ftp: tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/linux/binaries/usr.bin.X11/xview3L2
Ftp: sunsite.unc.edu
Notes:
    Inlcudes olvwm, UIT

System: SGI
Porter: Rainer Sinkwitz <[e-mail]>
Ftp: export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/xview3/Fixes/xview3_sgi_unofficial.patch.tar.Z
Notes:

System: Solbourne Series 5
Porter: [e-mail] (Tom McConnell)


Subject: XView 2 Ports

In general, there is no point in using XView 2 if you have XView 3 available;
it's a good idea to look for an XView 3 port first.  Moving from XView 2 to
XView 3 is usually simply a matter of recompiling, unless you've done
"dirty tricks" or used undocumented calls.


System: Stellar GS100 (Stardent 1000) and Stardent 1500 & 3000
Porter: [e-mail] (Andy Arvai)
Ftp: perutz.scripps.edu (137.131.152.27) in the pub/xview directory
Notes:
    Stardent is now Kubota Pacific (KPC)

System: Harris Nighthawk 4000 system (CX/UX Unix)
Porter: [e-mail] (Andy Warner)
Status: Commercial

System: SGI/Iris
Porter: (?)
Ftp: wuarchive.wustl.edu:graphics/graphics/sgi-stuff/XView/xview2

System: VAX/VMS
Porter: TGV Inc (?)
Notes:
    Steven Fenger <[e-mail]> wrote:
    A company called TGV makes a product called "XView for VMS".
    They made XView 2.0 libraries.  I haven't seen them advertising
    XView 3.0 libraries yet.

Subject: Games (free and commercial)

Commercial: Aviator - flight simulator for GX-equipped SPARCStations
Contact: Artificial Horizons Inc, [e-mail];  [phone]
Requirements: OpenWindows (2 or 3), SunOS 4.1 or later, SPARC GX or GXplus

Free: hexsweeper - minesweeper game based on hexagons
Contact: [e-mail], include HexSweeper in Subject
Requirements: OpenWindows 3.0 or later
Toolkit: TNT 3

Free:

Free: sidtool - PacMan game
Ftp: ftp.uu.net /usenet/comp.sources.games/volume1/sidtool/*


    an OPEN LOOK PacMan(tm) surrogate that
    appears as a debugger - the bad guys are code bugs that
    move around your screen; you (the good guy) chase them
    with a 19" monitor that eats bugs.


Commercial: SimCity
Contact: Dux Software, Los Altos, CA
Price: US$89
Requirements: OpenWindows 3 (uses NeWS).  Doesn't run on a 4/110 with cg4 :-(

Free: Spider (Included in OpenWindows under `demo' and `share/src')
    A patience-style card game with two packs of cards and
    excellent bitmap cards.
    I suggest recompiling to allow the cards to have rounded edges.

Free: Xblackjack (ftp from export.lcs.mit.edu as contrib/xblackjack-2.1.tar.Z)
    A MOTIF/OLIT based tool constructed to get you ready for the casino.


--
Liam Quin, Manager of Contracting, SoftQuad Inc [phone] [e-mail]
HexSweeper NeWS game;OPEN LOOK/XView/mf-fonts FAQs;lq-text unix text retrieval

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