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From: Iain K. Hanson (iain.hanson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-12 07:34:23
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 04:20, Craig Perras wrote:
> If you haven't seen Fresco (successor to InterViews) before, I think it has a lot of interesting ideas. http://www.fresco.org/
>
Just a word of warning. this link is not to the original fresco, but to
Berlin/fresco which hi-jacked the original. It is a complete replacement
for a windowing system such as X. As well aS A gui toolkit.
The original fresco ( including interesting papers ) is available from
TargetJr. I think it is in fresco-98.tgz
The original fresco originally ran on Windows, Unix/X and I think Mac's.
What it added over functionality in Interviews was platform indepence
and Object Linking and embeding via a CORBA 1.x orb. It also had
persistence via CORBA serrialization service.
Interviews is still maintained by Vectaport and is available here
http://www.ivtools.org/ivtools/index.html
They have an excelent collection of papers and pointers to the original
papers as well.
I'm not a GUI specialist, but few GUI libs that I have seen have such an
elegant design. That is very extensible. It may be a starting point for
use with more modern C++ techniques. BTW the license is X style and
compatible with boost iirc.
/ikh
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