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- From: fred@poly2.nist.gov (Frederick R. Phelan Jr.)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Suggestion on User Interface on the IRIs
- Message-ID: <31511@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 18:26:00 GMT
- Sender: news@adm.brl.mil
- Lines: 50
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- Kambainathan Hari <hari@robios1.me.wisc.edu> writes:
- >
- >
- >Hi,
- >
- > I am writing an animation software on the IRIS. I have
- >previously seeN and written programs which use pop-up windows etc. and
- >I though the UI sucked. However now that the new OS uses X11, would it
- >be possible to use the wiget set or some other better UI library. I
- >would like something that is reasonably simple to use. Suggestions are
- >welcome. Just keep in mind that I haven't done a great deal of UI
- >programming in the past.
- >
- >- Hari
- >
- >K.R.Harinarayan
- >Robotics Lab., Dept. of Mech. Engg.
- >Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
- >
- >Fone : (608) 262-7463, (608) 262 - 9056
- >e-mail: hari@robios.me.wisc.edu
- >
-
- I have seen three public domain Interface Builders
- for SGI, Forms, SUIT (Simple Interface User Toolkit),
- and dirt ... (anybody know of any others??)
-
- I have only used Forms, so others would need to comment
- on SUIT and dirt. I think Forms is great. It is easy
- to install and use. A couple of hours studying the demos
- that come with it and you are all set (definately faster
- to go this way than reading the manual that comes with it
- in postscript form). The Forms lib is built from GL. You
- can define buttons, sliders, browsers, and lots of other
- good things. Forms is available at archive.cs.ruu.nl in
- /pub/SGI ...
-
- As long as I am writing this, does anybody know if Forms
- will be compatible with OpenGL ??
-
- Cheers,
-
- ---
- Fred Phelan
- fred@poly2.nist.gov
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