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XFORMS(5)			 Forms Library			     XFORMS(5)

NAME
       xforms -	  A GUI Toolkit for X Window Systems

SYNOPSIS
       Forms  Library  for  X  (xforms) is a GUI toolkit and builder for the X
       Window Systems and runs on all major UNIX platforms as well as  OpenVMS
       and  OS2.   Forms  Library  is too complex to be described in the "man"
       page format.  Ask your system administrator for	the  location  of  the
       PostScript  document  or	 follow	 the links on the Forms Library's home
       page for an html or PostScript version of the document.

DESCRIPTION
       Forms Library is a graphical user interface toolkit based on Xlib for X
       Window  Systems.	 It  comes with a rich set of objects such as buttons,
       browsers, sliders and menus integrated  into  an	 elegant  event/object
       callback	 execution  model  that allows fast and easy construction of X
       applications. In addition, the library has support for image  read  and
       write, format conversion and simple image processing.  The library con‐
       sists of a flexible set of C-routines that can be used  in  C  and  C++
       programs	 (As  of this writing, perl, ada95, pascal, scheme and Fortran
       bindings to the Forms Library are in beta.)

       The library is efficient and portable and runs on all major Unix	 plat‐
       forms, including Sun, SGI, HP, DEC Alpha/OSF, IBM RS6000, Convex, Cray,
       Linux(i386, alpha, m68k, sparc),	 FreeBSD,  NetBSD(i386,	 m68k,	sparc,
       StrongARM,  ppc),  SCO,	Unixware,  OpenBSD  (i386,  pmax), DGUX (m88k,
       i386), BSDi, DecSystem(mips)/Ultrix  and	 others.   Non-unix  platforms
       include OpenVMS, OS/2, and Window/NT.

       Bundled with the library is also a Form designer, fdesign, which can be
       used to build interaction forms in a WYSIWYG (what you see is what  you
       get)  way  and  to  generate the corresponding C (or any of the binding
       languages) code for you.	 50+ demos in source code are distributed with
       the library.

OPTIONS
       All  programs  written  using the Forms Library recognize the following
       command line options

       -display host:dpy
	     specifies the server to connect to.

       -bw borderwidth
	     specifies the border width to use for built-in objects.

       -flversion
	     prints the xforms version information.

       -visual visualName
	     requests a visual by name such as TrueColor etc. By  default  the
	     Forms Library always selects the visual that has the most depth.

       -depth depth
	     requests a specific depth.

       -debug level
	     generates	some  info about the state of the XForms.  where level
	     is an integer between 1-5 and controls the amount of  information
	     to	 output.  Depending on the options used when the Forms Library
	     was built, a level more than 3 might not be available.

       -sync runs the application in synchronous mode with debug level set  to
	     4.

       -private
	     requests a private colormap for the application.

       -shared
	     requests  a  shared  colormap  even if the application needs more
	     colors than available. For those colors that can't	 be  allocated
	     in	 the  shared  colormap,	 substitutions are made so the closest
	     matching color is used.

       -stdcmap
	     requests a standard colormap.

       -name  newname
	     specifies the application name under which resources  are	to  be
	     obtained, rather than the default executable file name.

SEE ALSO
       fdesign(1L), fd2ps(1L)

AUTHOR
       Copyright (c) 1996-2000 T.C. Zhao (tc_zhao@yahoo.com) and Mark Overmars
       (markov@cs.ruu.nl).
       Parts  also  Copyright  (c)  1999-2000  T.C.  Zhao  and	Steve	Lamont
       (spl@ucsd.edu)

HOME PAGE
       http://world.std.com/~xforms

Version 0.89			   June 2000			     XFORMS(5)
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