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- Bywater Software
- Release Notice
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- User Interface (ui)
- version 1.01
- (Source Code)
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- Bywater Software is pleased to announce the public availability
- of its graphical User Interface (ui) in its first complete release,
- version 1.01. This software is copyright (c) 1991, Ted A.
- Campbell, and is released under the terms of an agreement specified
- in the headers of all source code files.
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- Description: The User Interface (ui) was developed to underly
- Bywater's Space Flight Simulator (also available).
- It offers implementation of mouse, window, icon,
- menu, dialog boxes, and other widgets for the
- development of a user environment.
-
- Implementation: Current implementations of the User Interface (ui)
- for which source code is included are the following:
- (a) IBM PC and compatibles, utilizing the Microsoft
- QuickC compiler and requiring Hercules, EGA, or
- VGA graphics; (b) the AT&T Unix PC with a primary
- implementation for the TAM subsystem, and a rather
- poorer implementation for the MGR windowing system;
- (c) Unix-based computers utilizing the X Windows
- system, version 11 (tested on DecStation 2100 and
- 3100).
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- Documentation: A quick reference guide to the abilities of the
- ui (and its underlying graphics, keyboard, directory,
- and text window subsystems) is supplied as "io/ui/ui.doc".
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- Communications: Bywater Software
- P. O. Box 4023
- Duke Station
- Durham, NC 27707
- USA
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- email: tcamp@hercules.acpub.duke.edu
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- Quick Build Instructions for Existing Implementations:
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- (a) Change to the directory where ui sourcecode is located:
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- Unix: cd io/ui
- MSDOS: cd io\ui
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- (b) Execute the build script for ui:
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- Unix: sh buildlib.sh
- MSDOS: buildlib
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- On Unix systems, the user will be prompted for a number
- corresponding to the particular system to be implemented.
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