Version 2.2a
Jun 28, 1993
			Form Library
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Introduction
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This is version 2.2a of the Forms Library, a package for the SGI
computers to construct interaction forms with sliders, dials, buttons,
input fields, etc. It also includes an interactive form designer.

The Forms library is public domain and can freely be distributed and used in
any public domain software, as long as proper credit to the author is given.
If you want to use the library for commercial packages, please contact the
author.

Please report any bugs, etc. to me. If you add object classes or make other
improvements, please send them to me. Also, please send in nice demos and
applications.

	Mark Overmars
	Department of Computer Science, Utrecht University
	P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht
	the Netherlands
	Email: markov@cs.ruu.nl

Contents
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You will find the following directories:

DOC 	Contains the documentation for the package in LaTeX format.
FORMS 	Contains the actual forms library.
DEMOS 	Contains a large number of demonstration programs.
DESIGN 	This directory contains the form designer.

To create the software package, type "make".  This will create the
forms library, the form designer and the demos.  You will need about
4 Mb of disk storage for this. Most of this though is for the demo programs.

FORMS on the Indigo
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Forms runs without any problems on the Indigo. Because of the small number of
bitplanes it will use single buffered mode rather than double buffered mode.
This is set automatically. Some demos though do require double buffering and,
hence, don't look too nice on an Indigo (e.g. demo39).

FORMS on other 8-bit machines
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On other 8-bits machines Forms runs automatically in single buffered colormap
mode. This might cause problems with self-defined object classes that require
RGBmode.  All object classes that are provided in the standard distribution
though can be used without any problem.

Changes
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The file Changes contains all changes made to the library since the prerelease
version 0.9.

Version 2.2a is almost completely compatible with the previous version. See the
file Important for details.
