Filename: Xforms4Perl-0.8.4tgz

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Target Platform: Unix systems with Perl 5.003 (and up) and Xforms 0.88 (and up)

Short: An extension to Perl giving access to the Xforms library - Version 0.8.4

This is an extension to Perl that allows you to call the Xforms GUI api
from a standard Perl script. The implications are quite impressive - you
can now develop complex X applications in Perl. The package includes a
number of examples in the DEMOS directory, many of which are unashamedly 
plagerised from the Xforms DEMOS directory. 

Note especially the ProcExp.pl demo - a filesystem explorer complete with
tree view, list view and splitter bar!!!

This is the 0.8.4 release of the extension and operates with both the 0.88
public release, and the previous 0.86 public release of the Xforms 
library. It requires at least Perl 5.002 and has been successfully compiled 
and run on all major versions of Perl up to and including 5.004. Perl 5.004
with Xforms 0.88 is the recommended platform.

Xforms4Perl version 0.4 is still available for Perl 5.001 users. but it 
only supports Xforms 0.81.

The extension contains 3 independent modules that provide access to the Xforms
API, XEvent structures, and XFontStruct structures.

The distribution includes many example applications.

The package requires the Xforms GUI Toolkit version 0.86 or 0.88, which
can be obtained from ftp://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/pub/xforms. You also need a 
complete Perl 5.002 or above implementation

Suggested location: /pub/perl/perl

Author: Martin Bartlett

Maintained by: martin@nitram.demon.co.uk