DocumentCode
2909867
Title
An extensible virtual toolkit (XVT) for portable GUI applications
Author
Rochkind, Marc J.
Author_Institution
XVT Software Inc., Boulder, CO, USA
fYear
1992
fDate
24-28 Feb. 1992
Firstpage
485
Lastpage
489
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
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
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CMPCON.1992.186760
Filename
186760
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