Re: GUI independent libraries

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From: Guido van Rossum
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1991 15:47

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fhart@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Fred Hart) writes:

>I am looking for information on GUI libraries that provide independence
>from the native GUI running on a given maching.

STDWIN isn't what you want because it doesn't support the platforms in
which you are most interested (PS/2 and MS Windows), but it is the
kind of interface you want: a complete windowing interface (windows,
menus, modal dialogs, mouse and keyboard input, scroll bars, drawing
primitives, ...) that is portable between platforms.  STDWIN is
available for Macintosh and X11.

If some company is interested in porting STDWIN to other platforms,
adding decent user documentation, and compete with XVT, I'd be happy
to help them (one at a time, please!).

STDWIN is available by anon. ftp from wuarchive.wustl.edu (in /pub/)
and gatekeeper.dec.com (in /pub/misc/); in Europe from hp4nl.nluug.nl
(in /pub/windows/).

--Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <guido@cwi.nl>
(If you didn't guess, I wrote STDWIN)

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