NAME:

WNDX, V2.04

 

VENDOR:

WNDX Suite 418,

1167 Kensington Crescent N.W.

Calgary, Alberta Canada T2N 1X7

(403) 283-5590 (voice)

(403) 283-6250 (fax)

(403) 283-6395 (bbs)

Email: support@wndx.com

 

SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:

This is a C library which comes bundled with a resource builder (OPUS) capable of creating portable resource files. WNDX provides system-independent graphic drawing routines, window manipulation primitives, and user interaction management routines as well as dialogs, menus, editable and static text items, scrollbars, checkboxes, radio buttons, list items, selection items, icons, color selection items, icon and bitmap items. Printing support is available for the DOS and Windows platforms (only). Programs generated with WNDX can be configured to use the native environment of the platform, or to be identical in appearance and behavior across all platforms. This is accomplished by the use of different "style guides" (source included) which define the look and feel of the particular "style". For example, a simple menu option can change the look and feel of the OPUS application running in Windows from the Windows style guide to the Motif style guide.

 

COMMENTS:

According to one article, they've altered concepts that most GUI developers consider conventional. All widgets have all the attributes defined for them (it's just that some of the attributes are meaningless and, therefore, ignored). WNDX describes it differently: The basis of the WNDX paradigm is the Window "object". Each object has an attribute list. Other "objects" are derived from the basic window object and each kind of object adds different customized attributes to the attribute list. There are some problems, like colors are not fully editable and there's no way to put a picture on a button (without fudging). Other complaints include features (like icons) that require special non-portable effort to use in a native look-and-feel. In addition to the platforms supported, a source code license is available for programmers who need to port applications to other UNIX/Motif platforms. Contact WNDX for pricing.

 

FUTURE PLANS:

The Mac platform is still on version 2.03. The update is currently in progress. The OS/2 platform port is currently on hold due to a lack of demand.