1. What is Xterminal?

Xterminal is a Object Oriented User Interface with a client-server architecture. The main purpose is a friendly interface for the UNIX operating systems. It is designed to be used to build text-based applications in C++.

It consists in a complete object oriented library including multiple, resizeable, overlapping windows, pull-down menus, dialog boxes, buttons, scroll bars, input lines, check boxes, radio buttons, etc. Mouse support, advanced object management, events handling, communications between objects are provided, too, bundled with a complete programmer's manual.

2. Portability and development

The current stable version is Xterminal 1.0.7, released on December 22, 2002.

It is known to work on Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD, but should work without any modifications on other UNIXes too, because it uses "autoconf"/"automake" configuration scripts, and "ncurses" library, which ensure a high portability degree.

• Requirements: gcc 2.6.8 or higher; ncurses 1.8.6 or higher.

• Copying policy: This library is free software, but protected by the GNU Library General Public License.

• Authors: Xterminal is written by Dragos Acostachioaie, with contributions from many other people.

3. How to get the library and how to contact us

Go to download page.

Please send bug reports, suggestions, feedback, patches, or anything else that you think, to: xterminal-users@lists.sourceforge.net.

4. Developers'

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