1Motif is hard to program with, in large part because it does not
2provide enough user interface tools, and because the tools it does
3provide are often at the wrong level of abstraction.  The Xmt library
4contains 8 new widgets and over 260 functions to make programming with
5Motif easier. Also, Xmt has been found to work with LessTif on Linux.
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7Features of the library include:
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9  + Simple message display--functions to display information, warning
10    and error messages, with automatically created and cached dialog boxes.
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12  + Simple "blocking" input--functions to synchronously return strings,
13    numbers, booleans, filenames, etc.  with automatically created and
14    cached dialog boxes.
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16  + The XmtMenu widget--describe a menu with an array of structures, or
17    with a single resource in a resource file.
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19  + The XmtChooser widget--a single widget that can appear as a radio
20    box, a check box, a list widget, a palette, or an option menu.  Takes an
21    array of strings or pixmaps to display as the choices, and maintains a
22    single state variable.
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24  + The XmtCli widget--a "command line interface" with automatic
25    prompting and command history.  Has fprintf() and fgets() analogs for
26    porting terminal-based applications.
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28  + The XmtMsgLine widget--a message line inspired by emacs.  Supports
29    synchronous input.
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31  + The XmtInputField widget--a text widget with input validation.
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33  + The XmtLayout widget--a general manager widget, using the TeX
34    boxes-and-glue layout algorithm.  Layout can be specified with a single
35    string resource.  Simpler than the Form widget, and more flexible than
36    the popular Table widget; includes built in support for text and pixmap
37    labels, separators and shadowed frames.
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39  + Context-sensitive help with resource files and the XmtHelpBox widget.
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41  + Support for multi-color pixmaps using the XPM format and a new
42    datatype, the XmtColorTable.
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44  + Wcl-style automatic widget creation with improved syntax, templates
45    and "styles".  Also, an improved callback converter.
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47  + Automatic dialog creation--register a resource list when you create
48    a dialog, and have the dialog automatically store its data in a
49    specified location.
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