The OffiX Project |
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The OffiX Project is an attempt to make Unix systems more user-friendly.
It is a GPL licensed Application Programming Interface to Unix / X with a hopefully growing number of contributed programs....
Here is a short description:
- It is an Application Programming Interface for Unix / X, written in C++
- The whole project is GNU licensed
- It is intended to become an object oriented Framework for interactive applications
- It tries to standardize communication between clients using common protocols including Selections and Drag and Drop. Other, non X dependent communication protocols are to be developed (including IPC, SHM, etc.).
schedule for further development:
- Writing the core of the OffiX Window Manager and fix problems in the lib
- First release of the OffiX API (including the window manager)
- Set up threads for special topics:
- Development of communication protocols
- Online documentation
- PostScript parser (using GNU ghostscript) & renderer
- HTML parser
- Scientific visualization (a la xmgr), rewrite and extend the ChartTools
- Interactive 3D modeling utility with rendering/raytracing capabilities, using VRML
- A vector-based drawing widget set
- etc.
The Offix drag and drop protocol is also implemented using Xt. A simple patch is available to make foreign applications compatible....
The sources of the current OffiX distribution (all tools will be eventually replaced by tools that will use the offix library) are available at ftp.x.org/contrib/desktop_managers/OffiX and leb.net/pub/offix
If you want to contribute you can send e-mail to the OffiX Team You can write new widgets or complete programs using the OffiX API. See the Guidelines for a consistent OffiX programming style.
If you have a patch to some program, or even a complete application that use the DND protocol and want to distribute the package, please put it in the offix incoming ftp directory. We thank you in advance for your contribution!
All basic classes are implemented. While writing the OffiX Window Manager as a first serious application we try to fix remaining conceptual problems and bugs.
Here are two screenshots of a data plot in Motif style or Open Look style
See the documentation for details.
If you want to follow the development issues and/or give your contribution send mail to this address with the line 'subscribe offix-l' in your message.