Wafe - An X Toolkit Based Frontend for Application Programs in Various Programming Languages

Wafe provides a flexible and easy to use interface to the X Toolkit (Xt) and the Athena widget set (Xaw) using the embeddable command language Tcl [1]. It allows access to Xt’s functionality from all compiler and interpreter languages, provided that they can communicate over stdout and stdin via unbuffered I/O. A typical Wafe application consists of a frontend process and an application program, which is executed as a child process of the frontend. Wafe provides a relatively high level interface to the X Toolkit and widget programming, where the user interface can be interactively developed without any need to program in C. Wafe can be used as a rapid prototyping tool and allows easier migration from existing ASCII based programs to X Window applications.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1993
• Where: USENIX
• Authors: Gustaf Neumann, Stefan Nusser
• Keywords: Athena Widget, Embeddable Command Language, Operating System, USENIX 1993, Xt’s Functionality