Slingshot

Jul 20, 2023

Supplemental Libraries to extend Xview

Slingshot provides rectangles like the Xt Intrinsics’ RectObj gadget, drag-and-drop support, images, icons and text, trees, lines, arrows… You can look at the documentation for the details, but here’s a few teasers there are new objects clock, bag, box. The grip and the drawarea have had a few interesting features added. The documentation has been improved dramatically. The drawtext can now be editible.

CAVEATS

This is NOT an official or supported product of Sun Microsystems, Inc. This software has been developed to leverage other efforts, and it is being released because it is hoped others can get benefits from it too. However, there ARE bugs in this software which may never be fixed, and there is no guarantee of compatibility between releases.



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