Top Document: comp.windows.x Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 3/7 Previous Document: 67) How compatible are X11R3, R4, R5, R6? What changes are there? Next Document: 69) Does Fresco work with g++ 2.5.8? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Fresco is a user-interface system specified in CORBA IDL. The sample implementation from the X Consortium is implemented in C++. Fresco is available with X11R6 (Fresco doesn't require R6, but it does need the R6 imake to build), but as a work-in-progress. Work is progressing, but there is no schedule for a full release version (and the standardization process has been deferred); the Consortium is still charting future directions. Fresco is a fairly long-term effort in our [that is, of the X Consortium] minds, in part due to the amount of work needed to produce a complete next generation user interface system, and in part due to the limited number of people working on it. We expect that each subsequent release of Fresco will both deepen coverage in previously existing areas like graphics, and broaden coverage to new areas like GUI control objects, embedding, and transcription. What order these things appear in, and the schedule for future releases, is still somewhat up in the air. - Matt Landau (X Consortium), 10/19/94 Fresco draws several design ideas from InterViews and will ultimately incorporate much of the functionality of Xt and Xlib, and add some significant new capabilities in the areas of structured graphics, device and resolution independent drawing models, a standard object model (OMG CORBA) and interface definition language (CORBA IDL), and application linking and embedding. There is a writeup on Fresco in the Proceedings of the 7th Annual X Technical Conference, published in Issue 5 of the X Resource, O'Reilly and Associates (ISBN 1-56592-020-1). PostScript for Mark Linton's Xhibition94 tutorial notes is in graphics/fresco/xhibition94.ps.Z on ftp.sgi.com. [Information from Kaleb Keithley (kaleb@x.org) and Matt Landau (matt@x.org); 1/94; 4/94.] There is a Fresco home page at http://www.faslab.com/fresco/HomePage.html . Sources and binaries are available at ftp://ftp.faslab.com/pub/Fresco . VFX (Visual Fresco eXplorer) is a highly customizable, extensible, and integrated environment for the authoring and visualization of Fresco objects. FrescoVFX is available from http://www.faslab.com/fresco/HomePage.html or ftp.faslab.com:/pub/Fresco/{FrescoVFX-win.zip,FrescoVFX-solaris25.tar.gz} for Windows 95 or NT 3.51 and for Solaris 2.4 or later. [8/96] User Contributions:Top Document: comp.windows.x Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 3/7 Previous Document: 67) How compatible are X11R3, R4, R5, R6? What changes are there? Next Document: 69) Does Fresco work with g++ 2.5.8? Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Part5 - Part6 - Part7 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: faq%craft@uunet.uu.net (X FAQ maintenance address)
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