About:
FOX is a C++-based toolkit for GUI development. It includes a rich set of widgets and has powerful yet simple layout managers, MDI widgets, and mega-widgets. FOX incorporates support for XDND for drag and drop, X clipboard and X Selection, watching other I/O channels and sockets, timers and idle processing, object serialization and deserialization, a registry to save persistent settings, and 3D widgets using Mesa or OpenGL. FOX works on Linux, IRIX, Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, Tru64 Unix, Windows 9x,NT,2K (VC++, GNUWIN32, Borland, VisualAge C++), FreeBSD, and Sequent.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
FXString::vscan(), FXString::scan(), FXString::vformat(), FXString::format(), and other printf/scanf-like routines now support positional arguments. Numerous warnings due to the new integer overflow rules in GCC 4.3 (-fstrict-overflow and -Wstrict-overflow) were fixed. Many warnings reported by Borland C++ compiler were fixed. FXComposeContext and FXApp patches were applied for input methods on Windows. The NoAccessTime option was added for the FXFile open() call. A problem causing NVIDIA driver video-memory leak in FXGLContext when new GLX1.3 code is used on the new Xorg X Server was corrected.

Author:
jeroen [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.65/10.00 (33 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.fox-toolkit.org
Tar/GZ:
http://www.fox-toolkit.org/ftp/fox-1.7.16.tar.gz
Zip:
http://www.fox-toolkit.org/ftp/fox-1.7.16.zip
Changelog:
http://www.fox-toolkit.org/news.html

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		MacOS X, Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
[Intended Audience]		Developers
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
[Operating System]		OS Independent
[Programming Language]		C++
[Topic]		Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks, Software Development :: Widget Sets

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Stable	1.6.33	30-Apr-2008	GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Development	1.7.16	30-Apr-2008	GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
1.7.16	Major feature enhancements	30-Apr-2008 14:02
1.7.15	Minor feature enhancements	15-Jan-2008 08:52
1.7.14	Major feature enhancements	03-Jan-2008 23:33
1.7.12	Minor feature enhancements	09-Oct-2007 10:16
1.7.11	Major feature enhancements	01-Aug-2007 13:47
1.7.10	Minor feature enhancements	05-Jun-2007 06:34
1.7.8	Major feature enhancements	19-Mar-2007 03:24
1.7.6	Minor bugfixes	06-Dec-2006 07:48
1.7.5	N/A	01-Dec-2006 06:08
1.7.3	Major feature enhancements	30-Aug-2006 17:15

 Articles referencing this project

• GUI Toolkits for The X Window System
  by Leslie Polzer , in Category Reviews
  Sun, Jul 27th 2003 00:00
  

 Comments

[»] Much underrated toolkit...
by bero - Jul 6th 2005 14:49:56

Having tried it out, I have to say FOX is a pretty good
toolkit.
Qt is more powerful, but for people who need
something LGPLed, FOX is definitely the right choice.
Much better than GTK, unfortunately not very widely
known.

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[»] Could we PLEASE get a mirror?
by jstotler - Feb 8th 2005 15:37:49

This is the 4th time in the last 2 years that I've DLed this to build stuff, and it always entails a download at .3-.6k/sec. It's maddening.

Hell, I'll host it, let's just get some faster speeds on this thing....

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[»] good
by James Pike - Apr 10th 2003 04:10:48

This is a really really good piece of software. My previous choice of GUI toolkit to use was QT, but after having used FOX just once I've never looked back.

More subscribers of this project should rate it.

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[»] An excellent GUI toolkit.
by Christopher "CJayC" Jenkins - Aug 31st 2002 12:42:50

FOX actually makes GUI programming in C++ fun. The design is very clean, and the library is well implemented. The tremendous portability between Windows and Linux/BSD/UNIX is very useful. Overall, this is one library I find nearly indispensible.

--
http://cjayc.tk

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[»] erratum: it's C++, not C
by Stormbringer - Mar 23rd 2000 23:15:04

He's explicit on his site that it's C++ top-to-bottom.

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