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<H1>FLTK 1.0 Programming Manual</H1>
Revision 6 by Michael Sweet, Craig P. Earls, and Bill Spitzak<BR>
Revision 7 by Michael Sweet, Craig P. Earls, and Bill Spitzak<BR>
Copyright 1998-1999 by Bill Spitzak and others.<BR>
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<H1 ALIGN=RIGHT><A NAME=intro>1 - Introduction to FLTK</A></H1>
The Fast Light Tool Kit (&quot;FLTK&quot;, pronounced &quot;fulltick&quot;) is a LGPL'd
The Fast Light Tool Kit (&quot;FLTK&quot;, pronounced &quot;fulltick&quot;) is a LGPL'd
C++ graphical user interface toolkit for X (UNIX&reg;), OpenGL&reg;, and
Microsoft&reg; Windows&reg; NT 4.0, 95, or 98. It was originally developed by
Mr. Bill Spitzak and is currently maintained by a small group of
developers across the world with a central repository in the US.
<H2>History of FLTK</H2>
It has always been Bill's belief that the GUI API of all modern
It has always been Bill's belief that the GUI API of all modern
systems is much too high level. Toolkits (even FL) are <I>not</I> what
should be provided and documented as part of an operating system. The
system only has to provide arbitrary shaped but featureless windows, a
powerful set of graphics drawing calls, and a simple <I>unalterable</I>
method of delivering events to the owners of the windows. NeXT (if
method of delivering events to the owners of the windows. NeXT (if
you ignored NextStep) provided this, but they chose to hide it and
tried to push their own baroque toolkit instead...
<P>Many of the ideas in FLTK were developed on a NeXT (but <I>not</I>
using NextStep) in 1987 in a C toolkit Bill called &quot;views&quot;. Here he
using NextStep) in 1987 in a C toolkit Bill called &quot;views&quot;. Here he
came up with passing events downward in the tree and having the handle
routine return a value indicating the used the event, and the
table-driven menus. In general he was trying to prove that complex UI
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user could write just as good of a button as they could, and officially
exposed the lower level interface. </P>
<P>With the death of NeWS Bill realized that he would have to live with
X. The biggest problem with X is the &quot;window manager&quot;, which means
X. The biggest problem with X is the &quot;window manager&quot;, which means
that the toolkit can no longer control the window borders or drag the
window around. </P>
<P>At Digital Domain Bill discovered another toolkit, &quot;Forms&quot;. Forms
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&quot;FLTK&quot;, and even a bogus excuse that it stands for &quot;The Fast Light Tool
Kit&quot;.
<H2>Building and Installing FLTK Under UNIX</H2>
In most cases you can just type &quot;make&quot;. This will run configure with
In most cases you can just type &quot;make&quot;. This will run configure with
the default of no options and then compile everything.
<P>FLTK uses GNU autoconf to configure itself for your UNIX platform.
The main things that the configure script will look for are the X11 and
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FLTK is available on the 'net in a bunch of locations:
<DL>
<DT>WWW</DT>
<DD><A href=http://fltk.easysw.com>http://fltk.easysw.com</A></DD>
<DD><A href=http://www.fltk.org>http://www.fltk.org</A></DD>
<DT>FTP</DT>
<DD><A href=ftp://ftp.fltk.org/pub/fltk>ftp://ftp.fltk.org/pub/fltk</A>
</DD>
<DD><A href=ftp://ftp.easysw.com/pub/fltk>ftp://ftp.easysw.com/pub/fltk</A>
</DD>
<DD><A href=ftp://ftp.funet.fi/mirrors/ftp.easysw.com/pub/fltk>
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ftp.northamerica.net/pub/ESP/fltk</A>
<BR></DD>
<DT>EMail</DT>
<DD><A href=mailto:fltk@easysw.com>fltk@easysw.com</A> [see
<DD><A href=mailto:fltk@fltk.org>fltk@fltk.org</A> [see
instructions below]</DD>
<DD><A href=mailto:fltk-bugs@easysw.com>fltk-bugs@easysw.com</A> [for
<DD><A href=mailto:fltk-bugs@fltk.org>fltk-bugs@fltk.org</A> [for
reporting bugs]</DD>
</DL>
To send a message to the FLTK mailing list (&quot;fltk@easysw.com&quot;) you
To send a message to the FLTK mailing list (&quot;fltk@fltk.org&quot;) you
must first join the list. Non-member submissions are blocked to avoid
problems with unsolicited email.
<P>To join the FLTK mailing list, send a message to
&quot;majordomo@easysw.com&quot; with &quot;subscribe fltk&quot; in the message body. A
&quot;majordomo@fltk.org&quot; with &quot;subscribe fltk&quot; in the message body. A
digest of this list is available by subscribing to the &quot;fltk-digest&quot;
mailing list. </P>
<H2>Reporting Bugs</H2>
To report a bug in FLTK, send an email to &quot;fltk-bugs@easysw.com&quot;.
To report a bug in FLTK, send an email to &quot;fltk-bugs@fltk.org&quot;.
Please include the FLTK version, operating system &amp; version, and
compiler that you are using when describing the bug or problem.
<P>For general support and questions, please use the FLTK mailing list
at &quot;fltk@easysw.com&quot;. </P>
at &quot;fltk@fltk.org&quot;. </P>
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