Re: XForms: Is Forms "compatible" with XForms ?

Steve Lamont (spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu)
Mon, 13 Sep 99 14:10:19 PDT

# To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) :

> I have an old program (93) running on a SGI Indigo with Irix system 5.3.
> This program has been written in C and use Forms (not XForms, but the
> original library I guess) library for the GUI. ...
> ...
> At this moment, I try to evaluate if this project is possible. So, as the
> GUI has been designed with FORMS, is it possible to recompile the program
> using XFORMS ? ...

The answer is, probably. If you have the .fd (forms design) file, you
should be able to feed that to the new `fdesign' and get an interface
as a reward for your efforts.

I've only had experience helping with one such port (check the
archives of the mailing list) but it was successful.

spl
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