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- From: steve@sep.stanford.edu (Steve Cole)
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- Subject: [comp.windows.x.announce] announcing xtpanel 1.0 (interactive panel builder)
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- Date: 4 Sep 1992 03:54:50 GMT
- Organization: Stanford Exploration Project
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- The source for xtpanel has been posted to alt.sources, and is also
- available for anonymous ftp on </hanauma.Stanford.EDU:pub/X/xtpanel.tar.Z>
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- Location (for anonymous FTP):
- Host: hanauma.Stanford.EDU (36.51.0.16)
- Dir: /pub/X
- File: xtpanel.tar.Z
- Size: 125125 bytes
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- Note hanauma's ftp daemon doesn't like you using "ls" and "cd .."
- use "dir" and "cdup" instead.
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- xtpanel - build an interactive program, from the command line
- or using a simple scripting language
-
- xtpanel provides a quick and easy way of producing a panel
- containing interactive objects such as buttons, sliders, and text
- fields, either from the command line or from an xtpanel script file.
- Each panel object maintains a string representation of its value. When
- the object is modified it updates its value and it can also perform an
- action such as printing its value or calling a system command. Objects
- can make use of the values of other objects in constructing their
- actions. The result is an interactive X windows program, without the
- need for conventional programming.
-
- This program is not intended as a replacement for a full featured
- interface programming toolkit like Tk or Dirt or as a replacement for a
- simple menu builder like xmenu, it falls somewhere in the gap between the two.
- It is intended as an easy to use tool that can be used to add an
- interactive wrapper to all those old programs and shells that you have
- lying around.
-
-
- Three utilities are provided with xtpanel. All three utilities are
- written as xtpanel scripts.
-
- The first is a script generator. This is a collection af xtpanel scripts
- that can be used to build, examine and test xtpanel script files.
- It is invoked using the command "xtpanel-generator". The second utility is a
- collection of example scripts and a master script that can be use to
- view and run the examples. It is invoked using the command
- "xtpanel-examples". A particularly powerful demo is the "lister"
- script example, which is a tool for maneuvering through a Unix
- filesystem and viewing files at any level. The third is a set of
- xtpanel scripts that present information about xtpanel, mostly taken
- from this manual page, in an interactive, menu-driven form. This
- is invoked by doing "xtpanel -help".
-
- This program uses the X toolkit and the MIT Athena widget
- set.
-
- xtpanel has been installed and tested on the following machines:
- Sun 4, OS 4.1.1, MIT X11R5
- Sun 4, OS 4.1.1, Openwindows-3
- DEC 3100, ULTRIX V4.2, MIT X11R5
- DEC 3100, ULTRIX V4.2, UWS V4.2 (with optional MIT compatible subset)
- IBM RS6000, AIX V3.2, MIT X11R5
- IBM RS6000, AIX V3.2, IBM X11R4
- HP 700, HP-UX 8.05, HP X11R4
- Convex C-1, OS 9.0, MIT X11R4
-
- AUTHORS
- Steve Cole (steve@sep.stanford.edu)
- Dave Nichols (dave@sep.stanford.edu)
- Stanford Exploration Project, Department of Geophysics
- Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2215
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- Steve Cole (steve@sep.stanford.edu, apple!sep!steve)
- Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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