From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 29 13:06:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA08152 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 13:06:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from iaehv.IAEhv.nl (root@[192.87.208.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA08114 for ; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 13:06:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by iaehv.IAEhv.nl (8.6.13/1.63) id WAA29484; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 22:05:21 +0100 X-Disclaimer: iaehv.nl is a public access UNIX system and cannot be held responsible for the opinions of its individual users. Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nietzsche.bowtie.nl (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA16812; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 21:48:59 +0100 Message-Id: <199602292048.VAA16812@nietzsche.bowtie.nl> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.1 5/23/95 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Jerry Kendall , Peter Dufault , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xforms maintenance tools (was Re: Tcl/Tk sysinstall) In-reply-to: jkh's message of Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:42:18 -0800. <12876.825446538@time.cdrom.com> Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 21:48:59 +0100 From: Marc van Kempen Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > I have been working on a diskmaint utility to 'fdisk/disklabel' a newly > > added drive to FreeBSD. I tried with 'dialog' and found it to be seriously > > 'limiting'. Gave up on 'dialog'. Then tried to use 'Tcl/Tk' and found that > > to be to cumbersome. > > The new dialog library (in -current) gives you considerably more > flexibility, though I agree that it's still not the best. > > I was talking to jtc the other day and he mentioned that the new > curses has menus and advanced controls - I haven't looked yet, but > THAT sounds very promising! > > > Now I am using the xforms library and the fdesign gui builder... It looks > > great and works very well. Have decided to write some other utilities > > once I have finished the 'diskmaint' utility.. > > I just wish it were available in source form.. :-( > The original forms toolkit is available in source, it is written for sgi's gl-library though. I have been toying with the idea of rewriting it, or at least making it compile with Ygl (a gl clone for X). It also has the sources to fdesign. The license states that it is free for non-commercial use. Maybe we could get some people together to rewrite this stuff? Regards, Marc. ---------------------------------------------------- Marc van Kempen BowTie Technology Email: marc@bowtie.nl WWW & Databases tel. +31 40 2 43 20 65 fax. +31 40 2 44 21 86 http://www.bowtie.nl ----------------------------------------------------