berman@cadillac.siemens.COM (A. Michael Berman) (11/10/87)
Public Domain Menu Package for X-Windows ---------------------------------------- A Public Domain menu package, written at Siemens RTL in Princeton NJ, is now available for Beta test. I would prefer that people with some experience hacking X try it first; if it passes muster, I'll release it publicly. Now, you can be the first on your block with nifty walking menus in your application. Just write to the address below: berman%siemens@princeton.edu and I'll send them on your way. Please let me know: -- who you are -- what you are doing with X (to the extent that your employer permits you to describe it) -- your e-mail address The uuencoded and compressed files comprise two files, one of ~20k bytes, the other ~40k bytes. The readme file for the menus is included below. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This menu package was written at Siemens Research and Technologies Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, in the summer and fall of 1987. The original basis for the source file menu.c was the menu package for version X10/6.6 of xterm (misc.c). We thank the programmers who gave us this basis from which to expand. We wrote this package to meet the needs of the RTL Tiled Windows window manager which is under development here. We have simulated much of the functionality of the SunWindows Toolkit menus. The package has been tested only on Suns. We welcome enhancements and changes, and we would appreciate hearing about them. We'll be glad to accept bug reports, but we can't support this package beyond our own needs. We are making it available because you 1) may be able to use it, and 2) may learn some tricks from it. We found the DBUG C Program Debugging Package by Fred Fish to be useful in debugging track_menu.c. The DBUG macros remain, so you can use them to trace the code if you have DBUG available. The Makefile assumes you do NOT have DBUG, and turns it off. There are also other options which are explained in the makefile. Adam J. Richter of UC Berkeley wrote an initial version of the menus while he was here last summer. Joe Camaratta and Mike Berman designed and built the present version. This work was performed with the guidance of Ellis Cohen and the assistance of Mark Biggers. --Mike Berman berman%siemens@princeton.edu (609)734-6500 x2293