7.0187 R: GUI Software Tools (1/37)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 14 Sep 1993 17:26:40 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0187. Tuesday, 14 Sep 1993.
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 93 14:19:33 -0400
From: tom@sailfish.cse.fau.edu (Tom Horton)
Subject: 7.0179 R: Software Tools
Regarding GUI software development tools that create software portable
across platforms.... There is an article in the October issue of the trade
magazine *UNIX Today* (pages 65-74) that describes 5 such tools, including
one that I mentioned, XVT.
To learn more about SUIT, the available-for-free-for-educators GUI package
from the Univ. of Virginia, send an empty e-mail message to
suit@uvacs.cs.virginia.edu and you'll automatically get back a message
describing the software's features and you can get it. (You can get it off
the Internet using ftp.)
I have a student who will look at SUIT this term, but right now I can't say
much about it. (Can anyone else out there?) I am interested in this
package and how it (and other things) could be used to facilitate software
development for text processing in the humanities.
Here's an extract from SUIT's introduction message:
>SUIT provides a standard library of screen components (buttons, menus,
>sliders, etc.), and allows interactive layout and specification of user
>interfaces. The user interface to a SUIT program is editable even while the
>application runs. Programs using SUIT are written in ANSI-C. SUIT runs on
>UNIX/X, Color Macintosh, DOS, and Windows ; a single application source file
>may be recompiled to run on all platforms.
>
>SUIT was designed to be easy to learn - we view it as "the Pascal of UI
>toolkits." Learning from a 10-page written tutorial, our undergraduates
>have been able to use SUIT productively after 2 hours. This is possible
>because we rely more heavily on interactive tools than previous toolkits,
>and because the entire system as been designed to be easy to learn.
Tom
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