Title :
An extensible virtual toolkit (XVT) for portable GUI applications
Author :
Rochkind, Marc J.
Author_Institution :
XVT Software Inc., Boulder, CO, USA
Abstract :
The author describes XVT, a virtual toolkit that allows applications to be written that are portable across several popular graphic user interface (GUI) systems, such as OSF/Motif, OPEN LOOK, MS-Windows, OS/2-Presentation Manager, and Macintosh. Applications are written to the XVT application program interface (API) instead of to the native API. The author explores the portability problem that XVT is intended to solve, explains its architecture and principal features, and briefly reviews its current status in the IEEE standardization process.<>
Keywords :
graphical user interfaces; software portability; user interface management systems; IEEE standardization; MS-Windows; Macintosh applications; OPEN LOOK; OS/2-Presentation Manager; OSF/Motif; XVT; application program interface; extensible virtual toolkit; portable GUI applications; Application software; Computer interfaces; Emulation; Graphical user interfaces; Graphics; Personal communication networks; Programming profession; User interfaces; Workstations; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Compcon Spring '92. Thirty-Seventh IEEE Computer Society International Conference, Digest of Papers.
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2655-0
DOI :
10.1109/CMPCON.1992.186760
