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From: sichermn@beach.csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Looking for some User Interface package for IBM PC's
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.045848.5706@beach.csulb.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 91 04:58:48 GMT
References: <1991Apr16.200649.21062@ulowell.ulowell.edu>
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
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In article <1991Apr16.200649.21062@ulowell.ulowell.edu> kseethar@hal.ulowell.edu (Krishnan Seetharaman) writes:
>This is for a friend of mine who is using Microsoft FORTRAn on his PC to
>develop some programs. He now wants to build a user interface (menus etc..)
>around it. It can be under MS Windows or otherwise. 
>
>Is there some sort of a library that he can use ? Does MS Windows have
>a FORTRAN interface ? What approach should be taken ? Any pointers on this 
>would be greatly appreciated.
>

  There are a few Fortran libraries around but most, in my experience,
are for o/s and hardware access (since fortran lacks them), not for making
fancy user interfaces. (After all, fortran is used by engineers and they
dont need fancy user interfaces, just a command line :-).

   However, MS Fortran (recent versions) have interlanguage calling
capability to other MS languages (and compatibles ?) including assembler
Pascal and C. With due attention to the equivalence of data types and
structures, he ought to be able to find one of the many C libraries
at SIMTEL compiled for MSC that could be called from the Fortran
program. If he finds a suitable one, please report back to the newgroup;
could save some of us the search effort.

Jeff Sicherman