NAME

       xforms -   A GUI Toolkit for X Window Systems

SYNOPSIS

       Forms  Library for X (xforms) is a GUI toolkit and builder for the X Window Systems and runs on all major
       UNIX platforms as well as OpenVMS and OS2.  Forms Library is too complex to be  described  in  the  "man"
       page  format.   Ask your system administrator for the location of the HTML, PDF or PostScript document or
       follow the links on the Forms Library's home page for an online version of the documentation.

DESCRIPTION

       Forms Library is a graphical user interface toolkit based on Xlib for X Window Systems. It comes  with  a
       rich  set of objects such as buttons, browsers, sliders and menus integrated into an elegant event/object
       callback execution model that allows fast and easy construction  of  X  applications.  In  addition,  the
       library  has support for image read and write, format conversion and simple image processing. The library
       consists of a flexible set of C-routines that can be used in C and C++  programs  (As  of  this  writing,
       perl, ada95, pascal, scheme and Fortran bindings to the Forms Library are in beta.)

       The  library  is efficient and portable and runs on all major Unix platforms, including Sun, SGI, HP, DEC
       Alpha/OSF,  IBM  RS6000,  Convex,  Cray,  Linux,  FreeBSD,  NetBSD,  SCO,  Unixware,  OpenBSD   ,   BSDi,
       DecSystem(mips)/Ultrix and others.  Non-unix platforms include OpenVMS, OS/2, and Window/NT.

       Bundled  with  the library is also a Form designer, fdesign, which can be used to build interaction forms
       in a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) way and to generate  the  corresponding  C  (or  any  of  the
       binding languages) code for you.  50+ demos in source code are distributed with the library.

OPTIONS

       All programs written using the Forms Library recognize the following command line options

       -display host:dpy
             specifies the server to connect to.

       -bw borderwidth
             specifies the border width to use for built-in objects.

       -flversion
             prints the xforms version information.

       -visual visualName
             requests  a  visual  by name such as TrueColor etc. By default the Forms Library always selects the
             visual that has the most depth.

       -depth depth
             requests a specific depth.

       -fldebug level
             generates some info about the state of the XForms.  where level  is  an  integer  between  1-5  and
             controls  the amount of information to output. Depending on the options used when the Forms Library
             was built, a level more than 3 might not be available.

       -sync runs the application in synchronous mode with debug level set to 4.

       -private
             requests a private colormap for the application.

       -shared
             requests a shared colormap even if the application needs more  colors  than  available.  For  those
             colors  that  can't  be  allocated  in  the  shared colormap, substitutions are made so the closest
             matching color is used.

       -stdcmap
             requests a standard colormap.

       -name  newname
             specifies the application name under which resources are to be obtained, rather  than  the  default
             executable file name.

SEE ALSO

       fdesign(1L), fd2ps(1L)

AUTHOR

       Copyright (c) 1996-2002 T.C. Zhao, Mark Overmars and Steve Lamont
       Since 2002: GNU Lesser General Public License
       Maintainers: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes, Angus Leeming, Jens Thoms Toerring <jt@toerring.de>

HOME PAGE

       http://xforms-toolkit.org
       http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/xforms/

Version 1.2.0                                     November 2013                                        XFORMS(5)