2 WINGs - WINGs Is Not GNUstep
11 WINGs is a small widget set with the N*XTSTEP look and feel. It's API
12 is inspired in OpenStep and it's implementation borrows some ideas
13 from Tk. It has a reasonable set of widgets, sufficient for building
14 small applications (like a CDPlayer or hacking something like rxvt). It
15 also has other functions that are usefull for applications, like a
16 User Defaults alike configuration manager and a notification system.
18 The library is limited and it's design is a little sloppy,
19 so it's not intended to build large or complex applications, like
20 anything more complex than a CDPlayer. GNUstep should be used for such
23 Since WINGs is written in C and is sort of low-level it is small
24 and faster than say, Motif or even Athena. Knowing Xlib will help you to
25 workaround some of it's limitations, although you'll probably be able to
26 write something like a trivial tic-tac-toe game without knowing much Xlib.
28 Some of it's functions are designed to support the Window Maker window
29 manager (see http://windowmaker.org) In fact, it's primary role is to
30 support Window Maker. All other uses of it are just an added bonus.
32 It will help you to understand the API if you read the ApplicationKit
33 reference manual, distributed as a PDF by Apple. The function names,
34 structs and most of the intrinsics are very close to OpenStep classes.
40 Change ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMGLOBAL to set the desired font set and
41 set MultiByteText = YES; to enable support for multibyte text.
44 Widgets provided by WINGs:
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47 - button (command button, radio, switch etc. - all buttons defined in OpenStep)
63 - selection (make pasteboard like?)
72 If you think you can code the following, please do. They are needed by
73 WPrefs.app, but the number of other things I have to do is huge.
75 - input method support (XIM). I have no idea of how to code it. People who use
76 different characters than ASCII will have trouble editing menus without it...
79 Wish list: (I don't have the know-how or time to do them)
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82 - text (with support for RTF)
83 - matrix (like NSMatrix)
84 - font manager (like NSFontManager)
86 - optimize list scrolling (XCopyArea() the area that's already drawn)
88 - use XSetWMName and XSetWMIconName for the window/icon title setting.
89 This requires transforming the received text to a text property with
95 WINGs is copyright (c) Alfredo K. Kojima and is licensed through the GNU
96 Library General Public License (LGPL).