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Re: X (Desktop) library obsolescence question

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Jason Nunn <jsno8192@adam.com.au> wrote:
> Jan Panteltje wrote:
> > I have ben using xforms for more than 10 years,
> > it also has a GUI generator that generates C code.
> >  http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/xforms/
> >
> > The lib is very small too, less than 2 MB, and it is extremey fast.

> Funny you should mention X-forms. I used X-forms for a X/Unix app I
> wrote in the mid-90's. I only ever wrote one program using x-forms, but
> found the API and form editor very easy to use and the look/feel on
> this library was nice.

And as a bonus, it's open-source since 2002;-)

> I might give this library a re-visit I think. I will be interesting to
> see if my old x-form app compiles :). Thanks for your feedback :)

If you should have troubles please let me know - I'm one of the
maintainers of XForms and try to keep things backward compatible,
but that's not an option in each and every case. Where you might
run into problems is when you have used undocumented features etc.
The rest of the API has been relatively stable over at least the
last 10 years (just a bunch of functions has been added, those
described as obsolete will remain available for all of the for-
seable future).

BTW, we're planning a 1.2 release (as a direct jump from the cur-
rent 1.0.93 release) for the near future. In case you are inter-
ested to help with testing you might try the current pre-release

http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/xforms/xforms-1.0.94pre5.tar.gz

For documentation (but which you also can build from the sour-
ces) see

http://xforms-toolkit.org/doc/
                                  Best regards, Jens
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  \   Jens Thoms Toerring  ___      jt@toerring.de
   \__________________________      http://toerring.de

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X (Desktop) library obsolescence question Jason Nunn <jsno8192@adam.com.au> - 2011-08-13 01:24 -0500
  Re: X (Desktop) library obsolescence question Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> - 2011-08-13 09:10 +0000
    Re: X (Desktop) library obsolescence question Jason Nunn <jsno8192@adam.com.au> - 2011-08-13 06:10 -0500
      Re: X (Desktop) library obsolescence question jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2011-08-13 18:55 +0000
  Re: X (Desktop) library obsolescence question Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2011-08-13 09:18 +0000
    Re: X (Desktop) library obsolescence question Jason Nunn <jsno8192@adam.com.au> - 2011-08-13 06:15 -0500
  Re: X (Desktop) library obsolescence question John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2011-08-13 06:27 -0500

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