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From: markov@cs.ruu.nl (Mark Overmars)
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Subject: [sgi] Release 1.1 FORM library
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Archive-name: sgi/interface-builder/sgi-forms/1991-01-30
Archive: perelandra.cms.udel.edu:/pub/sgi/forms1.1.tar.Z [128.175.74.1]
Original-posting-by: markov@cs.ruu.nl (Mark Overmars)
Original-subject: Release 1.1 FORM library
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                              FORM LIBRARY
                              ============

Version 1.1

I am happy to announce the release of version 1.1 of the forms library, a
public domain package for the design of interaction forms. Thanks
to the comments of many of you it has been improved in many respects. The main
changes are:

- A new mechanism of handling events for the user program. (This might require
  a minor change to existing programs.)
- The possibility to define graphical symbols.
- A new improved browser.
- Much less time consuming when working with automatic objects.
- Bold and Italic text objects.
- Improvements to the form designer.
- A number of errors corrected.

The best way to get the library is via anonymous ftp in our archive at
archive.cs.ruu.nl (131.211.80.5) (if you can't do this, mail me).

In the directory SGI you find a file forms1.1.tar.Z. Get it (in binary mode)
and type

uncompress forms1.1.tar.Z
tar xvof forms1.1.tar

and you get a directory forms_library. It contains the library, 26 demo's, a
few applications and 60 pages of LaTeX documentation. For those who do not
have LaTeX, the postscript version of the doc can be found in the file
formsdoc1.1.tar.Z in the same archive.

Good luck with it. Please report any bugs, questions, extensions, etc. to
markov@cs.ruu.nl.

Mark Overmars