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From: dias@epps.kodak.com (Bob Dias)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Forms Management System in X11?
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Date: 9 Nov 90 00:19:39 GMT
References: <1990Nov1.123019@cp0201.bellcore.com>
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In article <1990Nov1.123019@cp0201.bellcore.com>, robinson@cp0201.bellcore.com (Ken Robinson) writes:
> Is there any product (either available via anonymous ftp or commercially)
> that is a Form Management System that utlilizes X11.  What we are looking
> for is a package that allows a program to say 'put up form XYZ' or
> 'get VALUE of field A' without knowing about X11.  The Form Manager
> would translate those function calls to X11 and do the right thing.
> It would also be helpful if the system include a simple way to design
> forms.
> 
	There is no product available to my knowledge that is a Form
	Management System that runs on X.

	There is however a Form Interface Management System specification
	being proposed as an ANSI standard. From my understanding though,
	the specification is very character-based terminal dependent, and 
	a long way from being extended to a windowing environment.


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