X Windows on Linux and Mac OS X
Updated July 2010
X/Winteracter is an implementation of our Winteracter GUI toolset, designed for use with X Windows and the Motif toolkit on Linux or Mac OS X. X/Winteracter based clients on Linux or Mac OS X can also be run from Windows via a Windows-based X server.
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Features
X/Winteracter is source compatible with the Windows implementation. A substantial majority of Winteracter's functionality has been reproduced under Motif.
X/Winteracter offers a wide range of powerful GUI capabilities to the Fortran 9x developer under X Windows, including:
 | Multiple windows and split windows |
| Memory bitmap manipulation & bitmap viewer windows |
| Memory metafiles (CGM format) |
| Text editor windows, with optional command lines |
| Event handling |
| Text based menus, toolbars and floating menus |
| Dialog handling, including tabbed dialogs |
| Spreadsheet-style grid controls for array based data entry in dialogs and resizable windows |
| Common dialogs, e.g. file selector, message box, etc. |
| Full range of graphics primitives |
| Presentation graphics |
| 3D modelling |
| Graphics hardcopy/export/import |
| Display and save BMP/PCX/PNG bit image files |
| Support for transparent PNG, ICO and CUR image files |
| Operating system interface & binary file handling |
| Character handling, sorting and Zlib compression |
| OpenGL support |
| Send email |
| Play sound files (Linux only) |
| Clipboard access |
Virtually all of our visual tools are also included:
| WiDE : Winteracter Development Environment |
| Wizard : application quick start |
| Resource Editor : menu/dialog/toolbar/image designer |
| WED : Winteracter text editor |
| GraphEd : presentation graphics designer |
| 3Dview : OpenGL based 3D model viewer |
| PlotConv : view/print/convert graphics files |
| WinterView : two-dimensional data viewer |
| HelpEd : help file editor |
| TrEdit : troubleshooter creator |
| IFD2DLG : INTERACTER form to dialog converter |
A resource compiler is also supplied, enabling resource scripts defining dialogs/menus/etc. to be incorporated into X based applications in the same manner as the Windows version.
Motif
The X/Winteracter library utilises the Motif user interface toolkit. While several such toolkits exist for use with the X Windows System, Motif is one of the longest established and the nearest to being an industry standard. It is used in a wide range of professional applications.
The availability of Open Motif (released in 2000) means that Motif is readily accessible to developers on both Linux and Mac OS X. Binary versions of Open Motif are available for download from the net and is included with some Linux distributions.
Documentation
The X/Winteracter documentation is provided in HTML format, derived from the same source as the Windows equivalent. It is viewable in a web browser such as Mozilla, Firefox, Safari, Konqueror, etc. The documentation set incorporates a built-in contents/index control which reproduces the functionality of the Windows HTML Help viewer (as used by Winteracter's help files on Windows). A documentation search tool is also provided.
Compilers
X/Winteracter is available for the following Fortran 9x compilers:
| Lahey/Fujitsu Fortran 6.2 (Linux/x86) |
| Lahey/Fujitsu Fortran 8.x (Linux/x86_64) |
| Intel Fortran 10/11 (Linux/x86) |
| Intel Fortran 10/11 (Linux/x86_64) |
| Intel Fortran 10/11 (Mac OS X/x86) |
| Absoft Pro Fortran 10/11 (Linux/x86) |
| Absoft Pro Fortran 10/11 (Linux/x86_64) |
| Absoft Pro Fortran 10/11 (Mac OS X/x86) |
| g95 (Linux/x86) |
| g95 (Linux/x86_64) |
| g95 (Mac OS X/x86) |
Each X/Winteracter licence provides a version for use with one of the Lahey, Intel or Absoft compiler/platform combinations listed above. Each licence also includes a version for use with g95 on the corresponding platform. The currently supported g95 version is the "Stable 0.92" release.
An earlier version of X/Winteracter (7.10a) remains available for the obsolete Mac OS X/PPC platform. Development of this implementation has now ceased. Supported compilers are:
| Absoft Pro Fortran 9.2 (Mac OS X/PPC) |
| g95 (Mac OS X/PPC) |
Demo
Linux and Mac OS X versions of our standard Winteracter demo program are available for download.
Pricing
See the Winteracter Price List.
For more information email: