fox
Port variant standard
Summary Fast, frugal and portable C++ GUI toolkit
BROKEN
Package version 1.6.58
Homepage http://fox-toolkit.org/
Keywords x11_toolkits
Maintainer Michael Reim
License LGPL21+ , Fox Relinking Exemption (dual)
Other variants There are no other variants.
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Last modified 26 MAY 2024, 01:33:21 UTC
Port created 17 APR 2023, 21:35:23 UTC
Subpackage Descriptions
complete This is the fox-standard metapackage. It pulls in all subpackages of fox-standard.
primary FOX is a C++ based Toolkit for developing Graphical User Interfaces easily and effectively. It offers a wide, and growing, collection of Controls, and provides state of the art facilities such as drag and drop, selection, as well as OpenGL widgets for 3D graphical manipulation. FOX also implements icons, images, and user-convenience features such as status line help, and tooltips. Tooltips may even be used for 3D objects! Considerable importance has been placed on making FOX one of the fastest toolkits around, and to minimize memory use:- FOX uses a number of techniques to speed up drawing and spatial layout of the GUI. Memory is conserved by allowing programmers to create and destroy GUI elements on the fly. Even though FOX offers a large collection of Controls already, FOX leverages C++ to allow programmers to easily build additional Controls and GUI elements, simply by taking existing controls, and creating a derived class which simply adds or redefines the desired behavior. One of the prime design goals of FOX is the ease of programming; thus, most controls can be created using a single line of C++ code; most parameters have sensible default values, so that they may be omitted, and layout managers ensure that designers of GUI's do not have to worry about precise alignments. Another nice feature of FOX which significantly reduces the number of lines of code which have to be written is FOX's ability to have widgets connect to each other, and passing certain commands between them; for example, a menu entry Hide Toolbar can be directly connected to the Toolbar, and cause it to hide. Finally, FOX makes it easy to maintain the state of the GUI in an application by having the GUI elements automatically updating themselves by interrogating the application's state. This feature eliminates the large amount of effort that may go into sensitizing, graying out, checking/unchecking etc. depending on the application state.
dev This is the developer subpackage of the fox-standard port. It may contain headers, pc files, static and PIC libraries and SO links.
docs This is the documents subpackage of the fox-standard port.
Configuration Switches (platform-specific settings discarded)
This port has no build options.
Package Dependencies by Type
Build (only) bzip2:dev:standard
libGLU:dev:standard
pkgconf:primary:standard
freetype:dev:standard
zlib:dev:standard
jpeg-turbo:dev:standard
tiff:dev:standard
png:dev:standard
xorg-x11:dev:standard
xorg-xft:dev:standard
xorg-xrender:dev:standard
xorg-xext:dev:standard
xorg-xcursor:dev:standard
xorg-xrandr:dev:standard
xorg-xfixes:dev:standard
xorg-xi:dev:standard
xorg-macros:single:standard
Build and Runtime bzip2:primary:standard
libGLU:primary:standard
freetype:primary:standard
zlib:primary:standard
jpeg-turbo:primary:standard
tiff:primary:standard
png:primary:standard
xorg-x11:primary:standard
xorg-xft:primary:standard
xorg-xrender:primary:standard
xorg-xext:primary:standard
xorg-xcursor:primary:standard
xorg-xrandr:primary:standard
xorg-xfixes:primary:standard
xorg-xi:primary:standard
Download groups
main http://fox-toolkit.org/ftp/
Distribution File Information
5a734b84d76d2f8e334e26ff85dd3950d3fedf53057a4d4b19fd4a712c8d5b81 4427107 fox-1.6.58.tar.gz
Ports that require fox:standard
No other ports depend on this one.