Welcome to the XForms home page. XForms is a GUI toolkit based on Xlib for X Window Systems. It features a rich set of objects, such as buttons, scrollbars, and menus etc. integrated into an easy and efficient object/event callback execution model that allows fast and easy construction of X-applications. In addition, the library is extensible and new objects can easily be created and added to the library.

The following topics are available

• XForms Tour/How they look
• Some Coding Examples
• Getting the Forms Library and Document
• What Is New (Last update: May 1999)
• Join XForms Mailing List
• XForms based applications. (Last modification: May, 1999)
• Misc. things.

• XForms Manual in HTML
• XForms Manual in PostScript
• XForms FAQ
• Threaded, sorted and cross-linked archives of XForms mailing list
• Ada95, perl, scheme (scm/guile), pascal, python and Fortran bindings to xforms

• Linux Journal No.22, Feb. 1996
• UNIX Review Issue 84, Sept. 1996
• Linux Journal No.39, July 1997
• Linux Journal No.40 Aug. 1997
• Linux Journal No.41 Sept. 1997

The major differences between XForms and other toolkits are

• XForms is intuitive and easy to use.
• XForms is small.
• XForms is distributed with a GUI builder that allows fast construction of good looking UIs.
• XForms is free for non-commercial use.

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