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- From: bam+@cs.cmu.edu (Brad Myers)
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- Subject: [comp.windows.garnet] Welcome
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- Date: 16 Aug 1992 00:38:23 GMT
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- Welcome to the new Garnet newsgroup. This is to discuss bugs, features and
- questions about the Garnet User Interface Development Environment. It mirrors
- the garnet-users mailing list.
-
- Below is a short description of Garnet.
-
- Brad A. Myers
- School of Computer Science
- Carnegie Mellon University
- 5000 Forbes Avenue
- Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
- (412) 268-5150
- FAX: (412) 681-5739
- bam@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu
-
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- -*-*-*-*-*-*- ANNOUNCING THE RELEASE OF VERSION 2.0 OF GARNET -*-*-*-*-*-*-
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- NOW!
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- * In the Public Domain!
- * No licensing restrictions! Garnet is now available to all foreign
- sites and for commercial uses.
- * 60% smaller binaries and 25% faster execution than previous versions!
- * The Lapidary interactive design tool is included!
-
- You asked for Garnet to be faster and more easily available and now it
- is! Anonymous FTP instructions are included at the end of this
- message. With the Gilt Interface Builder and the Lapidary tool, you
- can now create a significant portion of your applications without
- programming.
-
- Garnet is one of the most sophisticated User Interface Development
- Environment in the world. It helps implement highly-interactive,
- graphical, direct manipulation programs for X/11 in Common Lisp.
- Typical applications include: drawing programs such as Macintosh
- MacDraw, user interfaces for expert systems and other AI applications,
- box and arrow diagram editors, graphical programming languages, game
- user interfaces, simulation and process monitoring programs, user
- interface construction tools, CAD/CAM programs, etc.
-
- General features include:
-
- * Coverage of the entire user interface, including the contents of the
- application windows.
-
- * Two high-level interactive design tools:
- - Gilt: an interface builder which allows widgets to be placed
- with a mouse.
- - Lapidary: allows new widgets and application-specific
- graphics to be designed using a mouse without programming.
-
- * Independence from X/11 and its complexities, since programmers using
- Garnet never make Xlib (CLX) calls or receive Xlib events.
-
- * Automatic display management.
-
- * Built-in, high-level input event handling.
-
- * Support for gesture recognition, so innovative interfaces can be
- investigated.
-
- * Two complete widget sets: one with the Motif look-and-feel (the only
- Motif widget set implemented in Lisp), and the other with a Garnet
- look-and-feel.
-
- * Widgets for multi-font, multi-line, mouse-driven text editing.
-
- * Optional automatic layout of application data into lists, tables, trees,
- or graphs.
-
- * Automatic constraint maintenance, so properties of objects can depend on
- properties of other objects, and be automatically re-evaluated when the
- other objects change.
-
- * Automatic generation of PostScript for printing.
-
- * Support for large-scale applications and data visualization.
-
- Garnet is implemented on top of the CLX interface to X/11, and works in
- virtually any Common Lisp environment, including Allegro, Lucid, CMU, and
- Harlequin Common Lisps on Sun, DEC, HP, Apollo, IBM 6000, and many other
- machines. Garnet does not use CLOS or any existing X toolkit (such as Xtk
- or CLIM). The toolkit comes with debugging tools, complete reference
- manuals, and tutorials.
-
- Garnet is being developed under a grant from DARPA, along with additional
- industry support. Papers about Garnet have appeared in OOPSLA (88), SIGCHI
- (89, 90, 91), ACM TOIS (July 90), Visual Computer (Feb 92), and UIST (89,
- 91). An overview article is in the November 1990 issue of IEEE Computer
- (pp. 71-85) and March 18, 1991 issue of Nikkei Electronics (pp. 187-205).
-
- Garnet is available for free by anonymous FTP. To retrieve it, ftp to
- a.gp.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.242.7). When asked to log in, use "anonymous", and
- your name as the password. Then change to the garnet directory (note the
- double garnet's) and get the README explanation file:
- ftp> cd /usr/garnet/garnet/
- ftp> get README
- Now, follow the directions in the README file. Be sure to send mail to
- Garnet@cs.cmu.edu to be added to the mailing list.
-
- Contact:
- Brad A. Myers
- School of Computer Science
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
- (412) 268-5150
- garnet@cs.cmu.edu
-
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