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- From: vamsee@abgen.tamu.EDU (Vamsee Lakamsani)
- Subject: ======= The Free Widget Foundation(FWF) ======
- Message-ID: <9301221600.AA24847@expo.lcs.mit.edu>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
- Organization: Center for Macromolecular Design, Texas A&M University.
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:00:13 GMT
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- WHAT IS FWF?
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- The Free Widget Foundation (FWF) commenced in the summer of 1990. We
- began as an ad hoc, volunteer effort, to generate a publically
- accessible repository for X graphical user-interface modules
- (widgets). Over time, many people have contributed widgets of varying
- degrees of complexity, and having application across a wide range of
- program domains.
-
- The 'Free Widget Foundation' is an obvious play on the 'Free Software
- Foundation', but we are not related to that organization in any way,
- apart from sharing the goal of having high-quality software available
- to the public at no cost.
-
- JOINING FWF
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
- The success of this project depends solely on the work of the FWF volunteers.
- Help us to develop the best, least expensive widget set for the X community!
- Joining the FWF is simple. Just send mail to,
-
- free-widgets-request@kazoo.cs.uiuc.edu
-
- WHAT WIDGETS ARE AVAILABLE?
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- FileSelector,Histogram, ImageSelector, MultiList, PixelEditor, Rheostat,
- ScrolledList, Slider are some of the widgets available in our growing
- collection.
-
- HOW TO GET OUR WIDGETS?
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- The latest version (3.4) of the FWF widget library can be obtained via
- anonymous ftp from,
-
- a.cs.uiuc.edu(128.174.252.1):pub/fwf.shar.Z
- ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de:/pub/comp/X11/contrib/lib/fwf/fwf.tar.Z
- (131.159.0.110)
-
- You can also send E-mail to,
-
- ftp-mailer@ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
-
- with the command, 'GET /pub/comp/X11/contrib/lib/fwf/fwf.tar.Z' in the body of
- the message. FWF widgets are also available on the ICS "Widget Databook" CD ROM.
-
- CURRENT WORK
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- We are trying to construct a much-improved, much-extended version (4.0) of the
- free widget set. This version is tentatively scheduled for relase by the end of April,1993. You know where to find it then!!
-
- If you like the Free Widgets concept, please tell other people about it.
- We can't save people any effort if they don't know about us!
-
-
- ----
- Volunteers of the Free Widget Foundation
-