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What Is XView
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XView (X Window-System-based Visual/Integrated Environment for
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Workstations) is a user-interface toolkit to support interactive,
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graphics-based applications running under the X Window System. XView
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provides a set of pre-built, user-interface objects such as canvases,
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scrollbars, menus, and control panels. The appearance and functionality
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of these objects follow the OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface (GUI)
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specification. XView features an object-oriented style Application
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Programmer's Interface (API) that is straightforward and easy to learn.
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1998-08-27 16:57:46 +02:00
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This package does not contain anything by itself -- it is a "meta-package"
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that depends on other XView packages. Its sole purpose is to require
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dependencies so users can install this package only and have all the XView
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stuff pulled in by the port/package dependency mechanism.
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