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It offers a wide, and growing, collection of Controls, and provides\nstate of the art facilities such as drag and drop, selection, as well as OpenGL widgets\nfor 3D graphical manipulation.  FOX also implements icons, images, and user-convenience\nfeatures such as status line help, and tooltips.  Tooltips may even be used for 3D\nobjects!\n\nConsiderable importance has been placed on making FOX one of the fastest toolkits\naround, and to minimize memory use:- FOX uses a number of techniques to speed up drawing\nand spatial layout of the GUI.  Memory is conserved by allowing programmers to create\nand destroy GUI elements on the fly.\n\nEven though FOX offers a large collection of Controls already, FOX leverages C++ to\nallow programmers to easily build additional Controls and GUI elements, simply by taking\nexisting controls, and creating a derived class which simply adds or redefines the\ndesired behavior.\n\nOne of the prime design goals of FOX is the ease of programming; thus, most controls\ncan be created using a single line of C++ code; most parameters have sensible default\nvalues, so that they may be omitted, and layout managers ensure that designers of GUI's\ndo not have to worry about precise alignments.\n\nAnother nice feature of FOX which significantly reduces the number of lines of code\nwhich have to be written is FOX's ability to have widgets connect to each other, and\npassing certain commands between them; for example, a menu entry Hide Toolbar can be\ndirectly connected to the Toolbar, and cause it to hide.\n\nFinally, FOX makes it easy to maintain the state of the GUI in an application by having\nthe GUI elements automatically updating themselves by interrogating the application's\nstate.  This feature eliminates the large amount of effort that may go into sensitizing,\ngraying out, checking/unchecking etc. depending on the application state.\n\n\n\nWhere to get it?\n================\n\nYou can FTP the complete FOX GUI toolkit from our FTP site:\n\n\n\tftp://ftp.fox-toolkit.org/pub/\n\n\nThe distribution includes this on-line (HTML) documentation you see here.\n\n\nMailing List.\n=============\n\nTo stay informed, we now have a mailing list for FOX.  To subscribe, send mail to\nfoxgui-users-request@lists.sourceforge.net with the word subscribe in the message body.\nMessages to the list can be sent to foxgui-users@lists.sourceforge.net.\nFOX announcements will be made through the foxgui-announce@lists.sourceforge.net list;\nyou can subscribe to this list by sending a message \"subscribe\" to the list server at\nfoxgui-announce-request@lists.sourceforge.net.\n\n\nInstallation.\n=============\n\nPlease refer to the file INSTALL.  FOX should compile on a large number of UNIX\nsystems.  The current \"configure\" scripts are however still somewhat primitive;\nif you need to make specific alterations to the configure system, feel free to\nsend them to me so that I may merge them into the main distribution.\nThe current FOX distribution compiles on Windows NT using the eXceed system; we\nexpect however to get some core functionality to become available under the native\nWindows environment fairly soon.\n\n\n\nGetting started.\n================\n\nTo get started programming with FOX, take a look at the tests directory, which contains\nsome example programs.  The best one to look at is probably the \"glviewer\" application.\nNote that you need OpenGL or Mesa on your machine in order to compile it.\n\n\n\nFinding FOX using GNU configure.\n================================\n\nGNU auto configure has features to detect the whereabouts of a library (AC_CHECK_LIB).\nUnfortunately, it assumes that you're looking for a C library, not a C++ library,\nand thus name mangling prevents it from finding FOX as all of FOX's API are C++.\n\nA special \"dummy\" C-linkage function was created to allow GNU auto configure to\nfind the FOX library; you can use it in your configure.in as follows:\n\n\n        AC_CHECK_LIB(FOX, fxfindfox)\n\n\n\n\nBugs.\n=====\n\nPlease file bugs and questions to the list foxgui-users@lists.sourceforge.net.  Before\nfiling a bug, please take a moment to download the latest version of FOX, and make sure\nthe problem still persists:- FOX is being developed fairly rapidly, and it is possible\nthat some of the problems you may have experienced have already been fixed.\n\n\n\nLicense.\n========\n\nThe FOX Library proper is licensed under GNU Lesser GPL; all the examples and demo\nprograms are licensed under GPL.\n\nIf you write software based on the FOX library, please include the following in your\nAbout Box, or some other place where a user may be able to see it:\n\n\n        This software uses the FOX Toolkit (http://www.fox-toolkit.org).\n\n\n\nThanks!\n\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Ffranko%2Ffox","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Ffranko%2Ffox","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Ffranko%2Ffox/lists"}