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XRT/gear is a collection of eleven widgets and three utilities, designed
by Motif experts, that will let you quickly build high-quality Motif user
interfaces.
XRT/gear provides widgets that are otherwise unavailable in Motif or greatly enhance those that already exist. Now you can use Outliner/Tree interfaces, build folder and tab dialogues and add pop-up spot help to your Motif applications. XRT/gear's widgets let you inform users with progress meters, build toolbars filled with colorful icons, or easily align widgets in a form.
Other XRT/gear widgets are improvements on the standard toggle, label and pushbutton widgets. And XRT/gear lets you easily output any Motif interface in PostScript.
Why build from scratch when you can rely on XRT/gear's comprehensive collection of widgets for cost-effective interface development?
Comprehensive Set of Components
XRT/gear comes with eleven widgets and three utilities designed to help Motif programmers build user interfaces quickly and easily. This page gives a brief overview of each of the components contained in XRT/gear:
- Color Editor - provide users with a smart color editor with a minimum of coding
- Outliner Tree Widget - easily to display and interact with hierarchical information
- Tab Manager - the most flexible, fully-featured folder control available for Motif
- Toolbar - add a toolbar to your application's GUI so your users can click on icons rather than hunt for menu items
- Aligner - create and align columns of label-widget pairs
- Progress Meters - increase end-user satisfaction by informing and even entertaining users with this widget
- Combo Box Widget - enable end-users to select from a list of choices in a form
- Paned Window - lets users easily size the contents of the active window
- Enhanced Toggle - create multi-state toggles containing the images you choose
- Enhanced Label - combine pixmaps with text labels, or wherever you need borders, rotation or clip masks
- Enhanced Pushbutton - can concurrently display pixmaps and text, and it supports rotation and clipping
- Widget Tips - add temporary pop-up help to any Motif Widget
- Widget Snapshot - print the contents of any Motif widget
- Icon Collection - provides over 3,000 useful public domain icons.
Object-Oriented Extension to Motif
All XRT/gear widgets are based on the open object-oriented architecture used by the Xt Intrinsics and OSF/Motif, so they fit seamlessly into your X Window development environment.
The widgets are directly programmed through resources, for example XtSetValues() and/or resource files. They can also be programmed using UIL and C++ interfaces. And they can be easily integrated into all popular GUI Builder tools.
Quality and Features at a Reasonable Price
XRT Widgets have recently been recognized with awards from The X Journal and The X Advisor. XRT/gear continues in the XRT tradition of high-quality widgets with flexible features at a reasonable price.
XRT/gear can be licensed for a single development machine, or economically for a network-site, or even for your entire organization. There are no run-time fees or royalties for distributing end-user applications you build with any XRT products.