Version 2.3
Jan 23, 1995
			Form Library
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Introduction
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This is version 2.3 of the Forms Library, a package for the SGI
computers to construct interaction forms with sliders, dials, buttons,
input fields, etc. It also includes an interactive form designer.

An X-version of Forms is currently being developed. See the file XForms
for more details.

The current version of the Forms library is no longer public domain but
can be used free of charge for non-commercial use, as long as proper
credit to the author is given.  If you want to use the library for
commercial packages, please contact the author for further conditions.

Please report any bugs, etc. to me. If you add object classes or make
other improvements, please send them to me. Also, please send in nice
demos and applications.

	Mark Overmars
	Department of Computer Science, Utrecht University
	P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht
	the Netherlands
	Email: markov@cs.ruu.nl

Contents
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You will find the following directories:

DOC 	Contains the documentation for the package in LaTeX format.
FORMS 	Contains the actual forms library.
DEMOS 	Contains a large number of demonstration programs.
DESIGN 	This directory contains the form designer.

To create the software package, type "make".  This will create the
forms library, the form designer and the demos.  You will need about 4
Mb of disk storage for this. Most of this though is for the demo
programs.

FORMS on the 8-bit Indy and Indigo
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Forms runs without any problems on the 8-bit Indy and Indigo. Because
of the small number of bitplanes it will use single buffered mode
rather than double buffered mode.  This is set automatically. Some
demos though do require double buffering and, hence, don't look too
nice on an Indigo (e.g.  demo39).

FORMS on other 8-bit machines
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On other, older 8-bits machines Forms runs automatically in single
buffered colormap mode. This might cause problems with self-defined
object classes that require RGBmode.  All object classes that are
provided in the standard distribution though can be used without any
problem.

Changes
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The file Changes contains all changes made to the library since the
prerelease version 0.9.

Version 2.3 is almost completely compatible with the previous version.
See the file Important for details.
