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Article #9123.0-beta now available
From: Mark Linton
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 09:09
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 09:09
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InterViews 3.0-beta is now available via anonymous ftp
from "interviews.stanford.edu" (IP address 36.22.0.175).
The distribution is in a compressed tar file named "pub/3.0-beta.tar.Z"
(about 3Mb). The directory "pub/3.0-split" contains the result of
"split" on the file.
We have fixed bugs, made performance improvements, and ironed out
portability problems since the alpha distribution. In addition,
both doc and ibuild have many more features. Doc has customizable menus,
automatic numbering, and better support for tables. Ibuild has a "narrow"
tool that obviates the need to create a new view simply to view
a partial hierarchy. The IV-look library has a new "Bevel" class
for creating Motif-like bevels, and glyph-based implementations
of menus and scrollbars that use bevels.
The README file in the top-level directory contains information
about how to build InterViews. The PostScript file iv/src/man/cover/cover.ps
contains general information about version 3.0 (including a brief
discussion of differences). A new document, iv/src/man/refman/refman.ps,
is a partially-completed reference manual, which really amounts to an
organized condensation of the manual pages.
Please send problems with the beta distribution to
interviews-bugs@interviews.stanford.edu.
Mark
Summary of 3.0 changes:
Library split into InterViews, IV-look, IV-X11, Dispatch, graphic
Coords are floats (except under 2.6 compatibility)
Glyph support in base library
Windows for mapping glyphs onto display
Unidraw library for building drawing editors
Dispatcher for non-user input (timers, IPC)
Class names automatically mapped to iv<name> to avoid conflicts
2.6 compatibility support
Compiles with cfront 2.0, 2.1 (but not with 1.2)
Eliminate InterViews/Std include files
No longer distribute g++
No more CC command provided
WYSIWYG document editor (doc)
Interface builder (ibuild)
idraw rewritten with Unidraw
Technical Details
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!stanford.edu!marktwain.rad.sgi.com!linton From: linton@marktwain.rad.sgi.com (Mark Linton) Newsgroups: comp.windows.interviews Subject: 3.0-beta now available Message-ID: <9104170909.AA02755@marktwain.rad.sgi.com> Date: 17 Apr 91 09:09:48 GMT Sender: news@shelby.stanford.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: linton@sgi.com Organization: Internet-USENET Gateway at Stanford University Lines: 44