> Hi Don,
>
> sorry for the long delay, I've been very busy.
>
> D. Zimmer wrote:
> >
> > I did not port my app to native fltk, but rather extended xforms 
> > compatibility with a static library formsx.lib which can be got from:
> >
> >   http://www.magma.ca/~dzimmer/code/formsx.zip (60k)
> >
> > Anyone should feel free to canibalize this code as they see fit.
>
> Thanks for this, whoever might need it.
>
> ....
>
> > I personally, see little point in maintaining forms compatibility beyond 
> > 1.1.x (or GLUT for that matter, but I realize that may be an unpopular 
> > opinion).  I just feel that the core FLTK distribution should be 
> > streamlined, and support for alternate API's could be maintained separately.
>
> Thanks for this comment. I think that we will remove forms compatibility after
> the release of FLTK 1.3. Maybe someone who wants to use utf-8 and has old 
> forms
> applications can use this as a migration path to native FLTK with utf-8 
> support.
>
> BTW: does xforms support utf-8 ?
>
> Albrecht

AFAIK, it does not support anything other than SBCS.  It seems to be pretty 
much a dead project, although surprisingly an update was put out last fall 
after a four year lull.  http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/xforms/

Don.

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