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

Sylvain Haudegond (sylvain@mie.utoronto.ca)
Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:06:50 -0400

# To subscribers of the xforms list from "Sylvain Haudegond" <sylvain@mie.utoronto.ca> :

Hi everybody,
Thank you Steve for your response, I thought it will be more difficult. It
work fine excepted some problems with the colors that are different from the
original. Do I really need to generate a new code with fdesign or I can
continue to use the old one ?

Sylvain

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xforms@bob.usuhs.mil [mailto:owner-xforms@bob.usuhs.mil]On
> Behalf Of Steve Lamont
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 5:10 PM
> To: xforms@bob.usuhs.mil
> Subject: Re: XForms: Is Forms "compatible" with XForms ?
>
>
> # 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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