guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum) (03/31/91)
Archive-name: unix/terminal/stdwin/1991-03-28 Archive: wuarchive.wustl.edu:/pub/stdwin0.9.5.tar.Z [128.252.135.4] Original-posting-by: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum) Original-subject: Re: GUI independent libraries Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) fhart@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Fred Hart) writes: >I am looking for information on GUI libraries that provide independence >from the native GUI running on a given maching. STDWIN isn't what you want because it doesn't support the platforms in which you are most interested (PS/2 and MS Windows), but it is the kind of interface you want: a complete windowing interface (windows, menus, modal dialogs, mouse and keyboard input, scroll bars, drawing primitives, ...) that is portable between platforms. STDWIN is available for Macintosh and X11. If some company is interested in porting STDWIN to other platforms, adding decent user documentation, and compete with XVT, I'd be happy to help them (one at a time, please!). STDWIN is available by anon. ftp from wuarchive.wustl.edu (in /pub/) and gatekeeper.dec.com (in /pub/misc/); in Europe from hp4nl.nluug.nl (in /pub/windows/). --Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <guido@cwi.nl> (If you didn't guess, I wrote STDWIN)