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Article #34======= The Free Widget Foundation(FWF) ======
From: Vamsee Lakamsani
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 03:01
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 03:01
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WHAT IS FWF? ~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Free Widget Foundation (FWF) commenced in the summer of 1990. We began as an ad hoc, volunteer effort, to generate a publically accessible repository for X graphical user-interface modules (widgets). Over time, many people have contributed widgets of varying degrees of complexity, and having application across a wide range of program domains. The 'Free Widget Foundation' is an obvious play on the 'Free Software Foundation', but we are not related to that organization in any way, apart from sharing the goal of having high-quality software available to the public at no cost. JOINING FWF ~~~~~~~~~~~ The success of this project depends solely on the work of the FWF volunteers. Help us to develop the best, least expensive widget set for the X community! Joining the FWF is simple. Just send mail to, free-widgets-request@kazoo.cs.uiuc.edu WHAT WIDGETS ARE AVAILABLE? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FileSelector,Histogram, ImageSelector, MultiList, PixelEditor, Rheostat, ScrolledList, Slider are some of the widgets available in our growing collection. HOW TO GET OUR WIDGETS? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The latest version (3.4) of the FWF widget library can be obtained via anonymous ftp from, a.cs.uiuc.edu(128.174.252.1):pub/fwf.shar.Z ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de:/pub/comp/X11/contrib/lib/fwf/fwf.tar.Z (131.159.0.110) You can also send E-mail to, ftp-mailer@ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de with the command, 'GET /pub/comp/X11/contrib/lib/fwf/fwf.tar.Z' in the body of the message. FWF widgets are also available on the ICS "Widget Databook" CD ROM. CURRENT WORK ~~~~~~~~~~~~ We are trying to construct a much-improved, much-extended version (4.0) of the free widget set. This version is tentatively scheduled for relase by the end of April,1993. You know where to find it then!! If you like the Free Widgets concept, please tell other people about it. We can't save people any effort if they don't know about us! ---- Volunteers of the Free Widget Foundation
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!enterpoop.mit.edu!tamsun.tamu.edu!abgen.tamu.edu!vamsee From: vamsee@abgen.tamu.edu (Vamsee Lakamsani) Newsgroups: ba.windows.x Subject: ======= The Free Widget Foundation(FWF) ====== Date: 21 Jan 1993 03:01:36 GMT Organization: Center for Macromolecular Design, Texas A&M University. Lines: 57 Distribution: ba Message-ID: <1jl3mgINN4vt@tamsun.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: abgen.tamu.edu