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- Fresco is an object-oriented application programming interface (API)
- for development of window-based applications. It draws many ideas
- from the InterViews toolkit that was developed at Stanford University
- in the late '80s and early '90s, but provides a single, simple object
- model that allows composition of both graphical objects (circle,
- polygon, etc.) and application objects (word processor, spreadsheet,
- etc.). Fresco allows these application objects to be transparently
- distributed by using OMG CORBA to specify their interfaces, which is
- especially useful for application embedding. Additionally, the Fresco
- API is screen resolution-independent, meaning objects can appear the
- same on different kinds of displays or when printed.
-
- Fresco Mar94 is included in the X11R6 distribution available from the
- X Consortium. This version includes rudimentary structured graphics
- and the ability to use Fresco objects in an Xt/Motif widget. Fresco
- Nov94 and updated snapshots are available to the public via anonymous
- ftp from file://ftp.faslab.com/pub/Fresco. This version uses dynamic
- loading to access the various kits (widgets, figures, layout) and
- includes code to use native Win32 calls instead of Xlib on NT. For
- further information about Fresco including updated build instructions,
- please check the World Wide Web home page at http://www.faslab.com.
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- To build Fresco for a given platform, see the README for your platform
- under the Fresco "build" directory.
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- For more information...
-
- Read the Fresco World Wide Web home page,
-
- http://www.faslab.com/
-
- check the Fresco USENET newsgroup (actually it was for discussion
- of InterViews, but it's being used for discussion of Fresco as
- well),
-
- news:comp.windows.interviews
-
- and consider joining the Fresco mailing list, which the X
- Consortium has opened to the public. This is the place for all
- questions, bug reports, flames, etc. To join, send a message to
- requests@x.org containing the text:
-
- subscribe fresco ADDRESS
-
- where ADDRESS is optional and specifies the address you would like
- added to the mailing list. ADDRESS defaults to your From:
- address. Then send your posts to fresco@x.org. Please do NOT
- use this address for administrative requests like subscribing and
- unsubscribing from the list, asking for help on how to use the
- list, etc. Use requests@x.org instead.
-