About AUIT

The AUIT toolkit is a high-level Java user interface toolkit which completely abstracts the application code from the interface. For many platforms (currently Motif, Mac OS X and Win32), native widgets are provided; other platforms can use Swing. The interface is specified in a set of XML files, one XML file per platform is specified.

The abstraction is done by letting the application "publish" data to the interface and "subscribe" on user actions. The application never touches the widgets themselves; this is done by mediators which are provided by AUIT.

The goal of the toolkit is to be able to:

• make it very easy to create and maintain applications
• provide real cross-platform applications without sacrificing the possibilities of the platforms themselves

Latest Information

The latest information about AUIT can be obtained directly from SourceForge.

In preview 3, the set of supported platforms will change a bit:

• Because OpenMotif is now free (at least free enough for me), the Motif target now requires at least version 2.1. This means that Lesstif is no longer supported as it doesn't have full Motif 2.1 support.
• Because Mac OS 9 never will support Java 2, this target is removed. It's replaced now with the Mac OS X (Cocoa) target.

Planned features for PREVIEW_3 and beyond

Preview 3 will finish the core menu code for release 0.1. It will clean up the code to make it easier to port AUIT to other platforms (Cocoa/GNUstep, KDE, GNOME) and will introduce dynamic item groups. In preview 3, the XML parser, will be moved out of the project. While the XML code has already been released as NanoXML, preview 3 will be the first version to use the separate package.

As the focus for preview 3 is on the menuing system, it's possible that the other code is a bit broken (Motif) or not implemented at all (Mac OS X).

Obtaining AUIT

The latest version is PREVIEW_2. There are four ways to obtain the toolkit:

• as a gzipped tar (for UNIX based systems): AUIT-Preview2.tar.gz
• as a zip file (for MS Windows): AUIT-Preview2.zip
• as a Stuffit Expander file (for Mac OS 8 or 9): AUIT-Preview2.sit
• directly from CVS

If you want to obtain AUIT from CVS, perform the following steps:

• export CVSROOT=':pserver:anonymous@cvs.AUIT.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/AUIT'
• cvs login (press enter when CVS prompts for a password)
• cvs get -rPREVIEW_2 AUIT

If you don't specify the revision tag (the -r option in get), you get the really latest version of the toolkit. However, it's not certain that the result will work (or even build ;-))

Documentation

Documentation about AUIT will follow in the (hopefully) near future.

Copyright notice

Copyrighted ©2000 Marc De Scheemaecker, All Rights Reserved

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.

Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions:

1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required.
2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software.
3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.

This project is hosted by SourceForge.

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