totty@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Brian Totty) (04/09/91)
Archive-name: x11/widgets/free-widget-foundation/1991-04-02 Archive: a.cs.uiuc.edu:/pub/fwf.shar.Z [128.174.237.1] Original-posting-by: totty@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Brian Totty) Original-subject: Re: File Requester Widget Summary Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) In article <4byCxsu00jWFIqkatC@andrew.cmu.edu>, ro2m+@andrew.cmu.edu (Randy O'Reilly) writes: > For those interested, it appears there are 2 options for a File > Requester: > 1. The FreeWidgetFoundation FileSelector widget, which I > used, is Xt-based and works well. It has a device-independent > directory manager section that I was able to configure for my Amiga > with little problem. It comes with the standard Unix directory > scanning routines. Just a note that the "Free Widget Foundation" is not related to the "Free Software Foundation". The name was chosen because of a similarity of goals. In reality, we are not a true "foundation", just a bunch of people trying to combine our efforts a little to try to get a better collection of X building blocks together. For more information of the FWF effort, you can send mail to free-widgets-request@eagle.cnsf.cornell.edu to be placed on the free widgets mailing list. A demo collection of some ad hoc widgets thrown together about 6 months ago (including the FileSelector widget & test program) can be obtained via anonymous ftp to a.cs.uiuc.edu (128.174.252.1) from the file pub/fwf.shar.Z.