X-Forms library support

XForms and Free Pascal

Introduction

Free Pascal for Linux has X-forms support !
The X-Windows support is provided through the XForms libraries. (Current version : 0.89).

The XForms libraries provide a large number of objects and functions to manipulate those objects. It is built on top of XLib and is small and efficient. A short list of objects is

But there are many, many more.

At this moment, the XForms header file has been translated, and several demonstration programs that come with XForms, have been translated from C.

An installation program for Free Pascal has been designed and tested.

And a filter to translate .fd files to pascal programs is provided. This means you can design your program using fdesign, and let the design program emit pascal source code for a unit or program.

There are about 50 demonstration programs in pascal, translated from the original demo programs. With the exception of 3 or four, which use C constructs not available in Free Pascal, all of them are fully functional.

All this can be compiled and installed easily with a makefile.

You can take a look at some screen shots here.

Where to get it ?

First of all, you need the following files.

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