Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!decwrl!sgi!shinobu!odin!sgi.com!linton From: linton@sgi.com (Mark Linton) Newsgroups: comp.windows.interviews Subject: Re: Description of Interviews? Message-ID: <1991Apr16.193031.3894@odin.corp.sgi.com> Date: 16 Apr 91 19:30:31 GMT References: Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News) Reply-To: linton@sgi.com (Mark Linton) Distribution: all Organization: sgi Lines: 21 In article , idean@scsfs10.monet.scs.com (idean) writes: |> |> Could someone post a good description of just what Interviews is? InterViews is a system for building and using interactive software. Like most interactive systems, InterViews is "object-oriented" in that components such as windows, button,s menus, and documents are active elements with inherited behavior. The name InterViews comes from the idea of a user interface object presenting an [inter]active [view] of some data. InterViews includes a set of C++ class libraries that support primitive objects (text, images, graphics), composite objects (tiling, stacking, formatting, structured graphics), and user interface objects (button, menu, scrollbar), as well as a drawing editor, a document editor, and an interface builder. The implementation runs on top of the X Window System and has been ported to most Unix platforms. InterViews is freely available in the same manner as X is from MIT. For more details, you might try looking at the paper about glyphs in the January's X Conference proceedings. Most of the papers about InterViews are available on-line via anonymous ftp from interviews.stanford.edu in the pub/doc subdirectory.