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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
       HTML, PDF or PostScript document or follow the links on the Forms
       Library's home page for an online version of the documentation.


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
       consists 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
       platforms, including Sun, SGI, HP, DEC Alpha/OSF, IBM RS6000, Convex,
       Cray, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, SCO, Unixware, OpenBSD , 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.

       -fldebug 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) 1996-2002 T.C. Zhao, Mark Overmars and Steve Lamont
       Since 2002: GNU Lesser General Public License
       Maintainers: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes, Angus Leeming, Jens Thoms Toerring
       <jt@toerring.de>


HOME PAGE

       http://xforms-toolkit.org
       http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/xforms/

Version 1.2.0                    November 2013                       XFORMS(5)

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