Re: [Closed REQ 6001]: control panels on non-SGI machines

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You have several options.

There's a pure-X version of FORMS available -- in binary-only form,
but there are compiled libraries for lots of systems including HP-UX --
by anonymous FTP from laue.phys.uwm.edu under the directory /pub/xforms.
It's not entirely compatible with the original SGI-based FORMS, but 
often requires only minimal changes.

You can just as well build geomview modules with graphical interfaces
using any other toolkit -- they just need to send GCL commands and if
necessary accept geomview's responses.

Tcl/Tk is I think a well-designed, pretty easy to use, full-featured, free
X-based toolkit built on the interpreted language tcl.  Modules in it can
be easily linked with C code, though for many tasks complete modules
can be written in tcl using the standard "wish" (window shell) interpreter.
You'll need the tcl/tk distribution, available by FTP from ftp.smli.com
under /pub/tcl, and there's a good book on Tcl/Tk (from Addison-Wesley?)
by its originator John Ousterhout.  I was attracted to it after someone
told us we could start building interfaces with code as simple as

#! /usr/local/bin/wish
label .l -text {Simple Program}
button .b -text {Press Me} -command {puts stdout "Pressed."}
pack .l .b

For a more substantial example, see e.g.
	ftp://geom.umn.edu/priv/slevy/geomview-picker.tcl