Winteracter

X Windows and Linux

X/Winteracter is an implementation of our Winteracter GUI toolset, designed for use with X Windows and the Motif toolkit under Linux, running on Intel-compatible processors.

Features

X/Winteracter is source compatible with the Win32 implementation. A substantial majority of Winteracter's main functionality has been reproduced under Motif.

X/Winteracter offers a wide range of powerful GUI capabilities to the Fortran 9x developer under X Windows, including:

	Multiple windows
	Memory bitmap manipulation & bitmap viewer windows
	Memory metafiles (CGM format)
	Text editor windows, with optional command lines
	Event handling
	Text based menus, toolbars and floating menus
	Dialog handling, including tabbed dialogs
	Spreadsheet-style grid controls for array based data entry in dialogs and resizable windows
	Common dialogs, e.g. file selector, message box, etc.
	Full range of graphics primitives
	Presentation graphics
	3D modelling
	Graphics hardcopy/export/import
	Display and save BMP/PCX/PNG bit image files
	Operating system interface & binary file handling
	Character handling, sorting and Zlib compression
	OpenGL support
	Send email
	Play sound files

The majority of our visual tools are included:

	WiDE : Winteracter Development Environment
	Wizard : application quick start
	Resource Editor : menu/dialog/toolbar/image designer
	WED : Winteracter Text Editor
	Help2HTM : Windows Help to HTML converter
	GraphEd : presentation graphics designer
	PlotConv : view/print/convert graphics files
	IFD2DLG : INTERACTER form to dialog converter

A resource compiler is also supplied, enabling resource scripts defining dialogs/menus/etc. to be incorporated into X based applications in the same manner as the Win32 version.

Motif

The X/Winteracter library utilises the Motif user interface toolkit. While several such toolkits exist for use with the X Windows System, Motif is one of the longest established and the nearest to being an industry standard. It is used in a wide range of professional applications.

The release of Open Motif in mid-2000 means that Motif is readily accessible to developers using open source platforms such as Linux. Binary versions of Open Motif are available for download and are included in some major Linux distributions such as Red Hat. As of X/Winteracter 5.0, both Motif 2.1 and 2.2 are supported.

Documentation

On-line documentation is provided in HTML format. This is viewable in Netscape 4.x (or 7.x) or Mozilla 1.x. It incorporates a built-in contents/index control which reproduces the functionality of the Windows HTML Help viewer (as used by Winteracter's Win32 help files). The Winteracter Programming Guide is also included, both in hardcopy form and on disk in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. All of the supplied documentation (HTML and PDF) is derived from the same source as the Win32 equivalent.

Compilers

X/Winteracter is available for the following Linux Fortran 9x compilers running on Intel compatible processors:

	Lahey/Fujitsu LF95 6.2
	Intel Fortran v8
	Absoft Pro Fortran v7

A version of Linux based on glibc 2.3 or higher is required,