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Dynamic Windows

Dynamic Windows is an application framework that was designed to make it easy to create dynamic applications with a modern interface. It was modeled after the GTK library on Unix. It uses the concept of box packing to create a dynamically resizable interface. Dynamic Windows is used by Mark Hesslings Rexx/DW package.

There are stable source modules for OS/2, Unix (with GTK) and Win32. A MacOS X module is in development but there is no timetable for release of that module.

Widgets supported:

  • Entryfield /Editbox
  • Multiline Entryfield/Editbox
  • Combobox
  • Button
  • Radio Button
  • Spin Button
  • Checkbox
  • Container/Listview
  • Treeview
  • Splitbar/Paned
  • Bitmap/Pixmap/Image
  • Menu (Popup/Pulldown)
  • Notebook
  • Slider
  • Percent/Progress
  • Listbox
  • Render/Drawing Area
  • Scrollbar
  • Text/Status Bar

For more information on the concepts of box packing please see the GTK home page. If you want to checkout the source you can browse the Subversion repository maintained by Mark Hessling, he also maintains Rexx/DW.

You can check out full sourcecode of the project with Subversion using the following URL:

http://svn.netlabs.org/repos/dwindows/