[comp.newprod] OSF/Motif Application Builder for the X Window System

acl@ist.CO.UK (Andy Lovell) (09/12/90)

			X-Designer
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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
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    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
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    X Window System (version 11 release 3 or 4)
    Motif 1.0 or later

    IST will be suppliers for binary Motif distributions.


  Contact
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  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