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1 Introduction

This manual explains the application programming interface (API) for the EZ Widget and Graphics Library (henceforth, EZwgl). It serves as both a specification and a users guide. This document referes to EZwgl release 1.50.

EZwgl is a library of C functions based on Xlib. Its purpose is to provide a tool that simplifies the task of graphical user interface (GUI) programming under the X window system environment. If you are a C programmer and want to build a nice graphical user interface for your applications, or you want to do some graphics programming under the X window system programming environment, then EZwgl is for you.

EZwgl implements about thirty or so commonly used widgets. Currently implemented widgets are:

EZwgl also implements a set of about 100 like graphics commands that provide high-level support for 3D graphics. It currently supports

EZwgl is designed to work on displays with an at least 8 bit deep PseudoColor, DirectColor, TrueColor, StaticColor, GrayScale, or StaticGray visual.

EZwgl has been tested on the following platforms, SunSparc/X11R5, SGI-Indigo/X11R5, Pentium-Linux/X11R6 and Alpha OSF/X11R5/X11R6. It should work on any Unix systems with X11R5/X11R6.

The current release is 1.50


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