XView 3.2 is now available for ftp: Location Machine Name ftp login ftp directory ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ west coast xview.ucdavis.edu ftp /pub/XView/XView3.2 east coast export.lcs.mit.edu ftp /contrib/xview3.2 The XView 3.2 source release includes the complete source for the XView toolkit, the OLWM window manager, a number of sample XView applications, and a collection of commercial-quality Lucida bitmap fonts from Bigelow & Holmes. What Is XView ------------- XView (X Window-System-based Visual/Integrated Environment for Workstations) is a user-interface toolkit to support interactive, graphics-based applications running under the X Window System. XView provides a set of pre-built, user-interface objects such as canvases, scrollbars, menus, and control panels. The appearance and functionality of these objects follow the OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface (GUI) specification. XView features an object-oriented style Application Programmer's Interface (API) that is straightforward and easy to learn. New Features of Version 3.2: o New File Chooser Object o Menu Accelerator functionality o New Panel features o Lots of bug fixes What is OLWM: ------------ OLWM is an ICCCM-compliant window manager, also based on the OPEN LOOK GUI. OLWM is a "stand-alone" window manager, not dependent on any toolkit code. OLWM provides both 2D and 3D-look OPEN LOOK graphical interfaces through the usage of the OPEN LOOK graphics library (OLGX). OLGX is written to the Xlib interface and does not use any toolkit. What Libraries are Included: --------------------------- - XView (XView user interface toolkit) - OLGX (OPEN LOOK Graphics for X) What XView Applications are Included: ------------------------------------ - clock - cmdtool/shelltool (a terminal emulator) What Contributed Clients are Included: ------------------------------------- The examples from the XView Programmer's Manual from O'Reilly. This includes over 70 simple example programs to show features in each of the XView packages. XView Requirements ------------------ XView requires the use of an ICCCM-compliant window manager. One such window manager is olwm, which supports the OPEN LOOK (TM) user interface. Further, XView requires full ICCCM support in Xlib. This is the standard in the X Window System Version 11, Release 5. The XView build is dependent on X11R5. The unpacked XView 3.2 source is ~20meg. You'll need an additional 18meg to do a complete build. (assuming shared libs) To install everything, you'll need about 8.5meg. Getting the Release: ------------------- XView version 3.2 source release: xv32-announce This message README More information about the Release UNPACKING How to unpack the release CHECKSUMS BSD style checksums xv32.tar.Z.a? Split compressed tar file pieces FTP sites for the XView source: Location Machine Name ftp login ftp directory --------------------------------------------------------------------- west coast xview.ucdavis.edu ftp /pub/XView/XView3.2 east coast export.lcs.mit.edu ftp /contrib/xview3.2 When transferring a tar file via ftp, be sure to set binary mode first. Files must be transferred in image mode (use the ftp "binary" and "mget" commands). If you are doing an "mget" you'll probably want to use ftp with the "-i" option to prevent it from asking you about every file. Building the Release: -------------------- To build XView, you need the XView source release and installed X11 Release 5 header files, libraries and config directory. More Information: ---------------- For more information refer to the README file found in the release. Please direct comments or questions about this source donation to comp.windows.open-look or xviewbugs@Eng.Sun.COM. Thank you for your support, The XView Development Team SunSoft, Inc.