acl@ist.CO.UK (Andy Lovell) (09/12/90)
X-Designer ---------- X-Designer is an OSF/Motif user interface builder. It allows the rapid development of a graphical user interface for an application. X-Designer is an interactive tool that permits the designer to exercise the user interface as it is being constructed. X-Designer generates portable C, that only requires X11 and OSF/Motif to compile. No runtime licence is required. Designs can be saved in ASCII files, to be re-used in later versions, or as part of new designs. X-Designer has a simple and intuitive interface. The main window has an icon palette for selecting the Motif widgets, and a canvas for laying out the user interface widget hierarchy. Widgets are represented by icons. Any part of the hierarchy can be cut and pasted, and any part can be folded. Special panels are provided for mixing and selecting colours, pixmap selection, and font selection. X-Designer has a Form Editor, an easy way to layout children for a Form widget. Widgets can be dragged round the canvas, aligned and attached to other widgets or the sides of the Form, or positioned as a percentage of the way across the form. All attachments are shown graphically, and can be exercised in the user interfacebeing created. X-Designer supports animation. This facility adds the ability to show and/or hide parts of the interface, and to enable and/or disable particular widgets. So selecting a button, for instance, can cause some buttons to be enabled, and another window to be popped up. Resources for a design can be generated as a separate application resource file. X-Designer is fun to use. Availability ------------ Sun 3 immediately Sun 4 immediately Sun 386i immediately Data General AViiON (88k) shortly Motorola Delta Box (88k) shortly DECstation/DECsystem shortly HP 9000/300, 800 planned Apollo workstations planned IBM RS/6000 planned Pre-requisites -------------- X Window System (version 11 release 3 or 4) Motif 1.0 or later IST will be suppliers for binary Motif distributions. Contact _______ Address: Derek Lambert or Andy Lovell Imperial Software Technolog Limited 95 London Street Reading RG1 4QA United Kingdom Telephone: +44 734 587055 Fax: +44 734 589005 e-mail: sales@ist.co.uk (c) Copyright Imperial Software Technology 1990 X-Designer is a Trademark of Imperial Software Technology Limited X Window System is a Trademark of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology OSF/Motif and Motif are Trademarks of The Open Software Foundation, Inc