tpn+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Tom Neuendorffer) (02/24/90)
Andrew Toolkit User Group Meeting
First Announcement and Call for Presenters
The first Andrew Toolkit User Group (ATUG) meeting will be held on
Friday, May 25 at the San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California.
It is being held in conjunction with (and immediately after) the
Xhibition '90 conference. ATUG will consist of informal presentations by
interested developers, some general discussions of where ATK has been
and where it is going, and the opportunity for ATK enthusiasts to swap
stories and interact.
ATK, the Andrew ToolKit, is an extensible user support
environment which provides an editor, a shell interface, a
system status monitor, electronic mail, and numerous
applications. The environment is not monolithic: users can
choose among the ATK tools those which best complement there
tasks and can continue to utilize other tools as they desire.
Since ATK is extensible, sites can easily add other applications
to the environment, without the effort of development from
scratch.
As a user-interface toolkit that runs under X11, ATK provides a
dynamically-loadable object-oriented environment wherein objects
can be embedded in one-another. In addition to containing
multiple fonts, text can contains embedded raster images,
spreadsheets, drawing editors, equations, simple animations,
etc.. These embedded objects could themselves contain other
objects, including text. These resulting multi-media documents
can be edited, printed, or sent in mail messages via the Andrew
Mail System(AMS). With the toolkit, programmers can create new
objects that can be embedded as easily as those that come with
the system.
The X11-R4 release also includes an interface building system
that facilitates the creation of multiple-object applications
(Adew), an object-extension language (Ness), a hypertext-like
link facility(Link), a charting facility(Chart), a directory
browser (Bush) and enhanced printing support that includes the
automatic generation of tables of contents and indexes. The ATK
source is distributed on the X11 tape in
contrib/toolkits/andrew.
Those who are interested in making presentations at the meeting should
contact the program chair. Please include a short summary of your
proposed talk, along with its expected length and your AV needs.
Proposals should be received before March 31st, 1990.
Possible subjects include, but are not limited to:
ATK based applications and insets.
Application development tools.
Extension languages.
Electronic mail.
Experiences with porting, developing, and/or supporting ATK.
Interoperability with other multimedia systems.
Printing models, color models, video, voice, Motif, native language
support, etc.
Please address questions and comments to:
Tom Neuendorffer ATUG Program Chair
Information Technology Center Internet: tpn@andrew.cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon University UUCP: ..!harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!tpn
4910 Forbes Ave. Fax: (412) 268-6787
Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213-3890