Unlike any other IDT, XFaceMaker/IDT is fully
upgradable to UIMS
or to an Animation builder, and starts at $995.
Using native Motif widgets, not look-alikes
or emulations",
XFaceMaker/IDT helps you quickly design the look" of your
native Motif GUI in WYSIWYG fasion.
Flexible and easy resource editing. Cut
and paste, drag and drop
resources among widgets. Multiple resource editing windows for editing
several
widgets at the same time.
Specialized editors for easy and fast
color and font selection.
Visual editor for displaying geometric constraints in forms"
(elastic boxes). Define new key bindings and translations" by
example. Menu editor for convenient, straight forward menu creation and
editing.
Powerful design features to augment the
development process
include: adjustable alignment grid, duplicating, cutting and pasting
and many other geometric constructs. Flexible and extensible widget
palettes let you group widgets for easy selection. Widget trees let you
browse the hierarchy of widgets in your interface and act on them
accordingly, including printing them in Postscript format.
The XFM widget tree is interesting because it functions as a set of drop targets too. For example, the cut and paste buttons can have contents dragged to them to effect the action - a neat approach."
UNIX Review
XFM's Try" mode is available at any time and lets you immediately test and watch the way the interface will behave in the completed application.
All XFaceMaker dialogs and windows are attractive, with excellent use of color."
