robert@aragorn.cm.deakin.OZ (Robert Ruge) (07/20/88)
Hello folks. I am after any information on graphical interfaces
(toolboxes) for C++. Public domain or commercial, for any
machines at all (preferably Unix). Any information on cost,
availability, machine requirements, C++ versions, etc.
Thanks in advance.
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Robert Ruge robert@aragornjch@apollo.uucp (Jan Hardenbergh) (07/22/88)
> From: robert@aragorn.cm.deakin.OZ (Robert Ruge) Asks for graphical interfaces in c++. I imagine you are looking for graphical objects and not just interfaces that are callable from c++. Assuming that, you have touched and interest of mine. A few months ago > From: malony@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu -- Allen Malony asked for graphical objects in c++. The best response was > From: calder@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU (Paul Calder) > You might like to have a look at InterViews, a C++ user interface... > You can get InterViews several ways 1. From the X Window System (X11R2) tape, in the 'contrib' directory 2. Via anonymous ftp from lurch.stanford.edu (36.22.0.14) You can get the binaries (choose your machine and X version) or the sources. There are also PostScript versions of a couple of papers there. Manual pages are in with the source files. 3. By sending a stamped, self-addressed tape (Sun, TK50, or 1/2") to Prof. Mark Linton CIS 213 Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 You will get a hardcopy of the documentation, too. 4. From the C++ USENIX distribution tape (does anyone know if this has been released yet?) My question is a repeat of the last one. I would also like to hear about other families of c++ graphics objects. I know PPI has some graphics & UI objects in objective C - are those in c++, too? Jan Hardenbergh Apollo Computer jch@apollo.com {mit-eddie,decwrl!decvax,attunix}!apollo!jch
robert@aragorn.cm.deakin.OZ (Robert Ruge) (07/28/88)
In article <6855@charlie.OZ> robert@aragorn.OZ (Robert Ruge) writes: >Hello folks. I am after any information on graphical interfaces >(toolboxes) for C++. Public domain or commercial, for any >machines at all (preferably Unix). Any information on cost, >availability, machine requirements, C++ versions, etc. Well thanks to all those people who replied to my question. The majority of responses were to look at the InterViews package that comes on the X distribution tapes. I will look at this as soon as I get X11 for our Apollo. However, there were a couple of other responses which I will include below. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dag Bruck <dag@Control.LTH.Se@munnari.oz> Subject: Re: Graphical interfaces for C++ We have a Silicon Graphics IRIS workstation with C++, the IRIS Graphics Library, and a PHIGS implementation (FIGARO from Template Graphics). You can have C++ interfaces to IRIS GL and FIGARO, if you want. Note: the FIGARO interface lacks declarations of most inquiry routines. Department of Automatic Control Internet: dag@control.lth.se Lund Institute of Technology UUCP: ...!enea!control.lth.se!dag P. O. Box 118 S-221 00 Lund, SWEDEN Phone: +46 46-108779 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This stolen from another news item: In article <3631@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> psmah@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Paul S. Mahler) writes: > > < Can this or any other C++ compiler be > <used to write programs that run under Microsoft Windows? Yes! Glockenspiel's designer C++ is fully compatible with Microsoft C and Windows, and can be used for direct Windows development. > Zortech C++ does not work with Microsoft Windows. I plan to soon > make Zortech C and C++ OS/2 and PM compatible, but have no > current plans to support Windows. Glockenspiel's CommonView class library also offers an Object-Oriented framework for Windows development and is currently on Beta release for Microsoft Windows 2.03. This provides a generic Object-Oriented environment for developing windowing software in C++, and will be available later for X11 and NeWS. The best person to contact if you want to find out more about this is Peter Maxwell, Product Manager, Glockenspiel Ltd., 19 Belvedere Place, Dublin 1, IRELAND. Tel: +353 +1 364515 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mcvax!iesd!fischer@munnari.oz (Lars P. Fischer) I'm not quite sure what you mean by "graphical interfaces (tool- boxes)". If what you are after is a toolkit for a window system, with classes for window, dialog boxes, menus etc, as well as functions for putting graphics, both bitmaps and objects, into windows, take a look at InterViews for The X Window System. InterViews is a really nice system, providing all the basic functionality for handling a window- and mouse graphics interface. It's completely in C++, and it shields you from X, so that you have to deal with InterViews only. InterViews is, as all of X, in the Public Domain. You can get from MIT, from the Free Software Foundation, and possibly many other sources. X runs on Suns, Apollos, HP's, IBM PC/RT's, microVaxen etc. etc. There are rumors of a port of InterViews to NeWS, but I don't know if it's for real. If what you are looking for is a graphical environment for C++ programming, with browsers, specialized editors etc. etc. a.la. Smalltalk-80, very little is available. HP has some funky tools for Objective-C, but I don't know if they have ported them to C++ and if they are available outside HP. This is an area where lots of work is needed. Lars Fischer, fischer@iesd.dk, {...}!mcvax!diku!iesd!fischer Who put these fingerprints on my imagination? -- E. Costello. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- So it appears that if you have X you can create graphical interfaces to your code. If want you want is a Smalltalk like environment (which is ideally what we would like) then you are out of luck for the moment. Probably a good subject for a Masters Thesis - anyone. Well thanks again to those who replied. Robert Robert Ruge robert@aragorn