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- From: markov@cs.ruu.nl (Mark Overmars)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: *** New Release FORMS LIBRARY ***
- Keywords: GUI, Forms Library
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.152006.19422@cs.ruu.nl>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 15:20:06 GMT
- Sender: network-news@cs.ruu.nl
- Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science
- Lines: 52
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- FORM LIBRARY
- ============
-
- Version 2.1
-
- I am happy to announce the release of version 2.1 of the forms library, a
- public domain package for the design of interaction forms. Thanks
- to the comments of many of you it has been improved further. Version 2.1
- is almost fully compatible with version 2.0. Only if you have complicated
- free objects you might have some slight problems. Read the file Important
- about possible problems.
-
- The main changes with respect to version 2.0 are:
-
- - Extended font handling, allowing for more font styles and sizes.
- - Much better memory management, avoiding memory leaks and allowing
- e.g for arbitrary sized labels, input fields, etc.
- - Works now in distributed mode with dgl.
- - Forms can be iconified without freezing the application.
- - Multiline and secret input fields.
- - Alignment routines added to the Form Designer.
- - Enhanced menu object class.
- - Objects can temporarily be deactivated.
- - Many errors corrected (e.g. in event handling, input focus, etc.).
-
- All changes can be found in the file Changes.
-
- The best way to get the library is via anonymous ftp in our archive at
- ftp.cs.ruu.nl (131.211.80.17) (if you can't do this, mail me).
-
- In the directory SGI you find a directory FORMS that contains all stuff
- related to the Forms Library. See the file INDEX there for details. The
- package itself is contained in the file forms2.1.tar.Z.
- Get it (in binary mode) and type
-
- uncompress forms2.1.tar.Z
- tar xvof forms2.1.tar
-
- and you get a directory forms_library. It contains the library, 42 demo's
- and 120 pages of LaTeX documentation. For those who do not
- have LaTeX, the postscript version of the doc can be found in the file
- forms2.1.ps.Z in the same archive.
-
- Please make sure that after installing the library you recompile everything
- (relinking is not enough). Also take care that you use the new forms.h file
- and not the old one.
-
- Good luck with it. Please report any bugs, questions, extensions, etc. to
- markov@cs.ruu.nl.
-
- Mark Overmars
-