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cdk-4.9.10: description + notes

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Cdk currently contains 21 ready to use widgets which facilitate the speedy development of full screen curses programs. These widgets are the result of over a years worth of playing. The current complement of widgets are:

Widget Type	Quick Description
Alphalist	Allows a user to select from a list of words, with the ability to narrow the search list by typing in a few characters of the desired word.
Buttonbox	This creates a multiple button widget.
Calendar	Creates a little simple calendar widget.
Dialog	Prompts the user with a message, and the user can pick an answer from the buttons provided.
Entry	Allows the user to enter various types of information.
File Selector	A file selector built from Cdk base widgets. This example shows how to create more complicated widgets using the Cdk widget library.
Graph	Draws a graph.
Histogram	Draws a histogram.
Item List	Creates a pop up field which allows the user to select one of several choices in a small field.
Label	Displays messages in a pop up box, or the label can be considered part of the screen.
Marquee	Displays a message in a scrolling marquee.
Matrix	Creates a complex matrix with lots of options.
Menu	Creates a pull-down menu interface.
Multiple Line Entry	A multiple line entry field.
Radio List	Creates a radio button list.
Scale	Creates a numeric scale. Used for allowing a user to pick a numeric value and restrict them to a range of values.
Scrolling List	Creates a scrolling list/menu list.
Scrolling Window	Creates a scrolling log file viewer. Can add information into the window while its running.
Selection List	Creates a multiple option selection list.
Slider	Akin to the scale widget, this widget provides a visual slide bar to represent the numeric value.
Template	Creates a entry field with character sensitive positions. Used for pre-formatted fields like dates and phone numbers.
Viewer	This is a file/information viewer. Very useful when you need to display loads of information.

Each widget has the ability to display color, or other character attributes. Cdk comes with a attribute/color format command set which allows a programmer to add colors and characters attributes simply.

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NOTE: Developers intending to use this distribution for application development should be sure to read the information below. Users installing it for the runtime environment only need not read any further.

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Developers intending to use this library for development of other freeware packages or their own software applications will need to be familiar with a few peculiarities due to the way that this library is packaged and installed. The reasons for this installation strategy are described further in the fw_common product release notes.

The header files and libraries in this package are installed into /usr/freeware. This means that when building software using this distribution you should be sure to do the following:

• Include the following flag on your compile lines:
  

  -I/usr/freeware/include
  

  This flag will cause your compilations to correctly find the library's header files at compile time.

• Include the following flag on your link lines:
  

  -L/usr/freeware/lib32 (if using n32 ABI)
  -L/usr/freeware/lib64 (if using 64 ABI)
  

  This flag will cause the linker to correctly find the library's archive or shared object files at link time.

• Additionally, include the following flag on your link lines:
  

  -rpath /usr/freeware/lib32 (if using n32 ABI)
  -rpath /usr/freeware/lib64 (if using 64 ABI)
  

  This flag will allow the binary to locate the shared object library files when the application is run. This is required since the shared objects are stored in these /usr/freeware subdirectories which are not searched by the run-time linker by default.

• Finally, if you are building an installable package for inst (contributing to freeware, for example) be sure to make your package depend upon this package. Add the following line to your spec file:

  prereq ( fw_cdk.sw.lib 1270000000 1289999900 )
  

Following these guidelines will allow your application to safely and easily use the software in this package.

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Special thanks to Andrea Suatoni (a.suatoni@itaca.it) for helping port this package to IRIX.

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