Wafe

The Wafe application environment is designed to make it easier to write GUI applications from within several languages using Tk as a basis.

A page to locate the various versions of Wafe can be found at http://www.es.net/pub/public-domain/wafe/.INDEX.html and Wafe's home page can be found at http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/wafe/wafe.html . [URLs are broken]

PFW ~ http://afs.wu-wien.ac.at/wafe/ was active as of 18 Oct 2006

WAFE

        WAFE is a Athena Widget front end which uses Tcl.  To join
        the wafe mailing list, contact mailto:wafe@wu-wien.ac.at.

 What: Wafe

Where: http://nestroy.wi-inf.uni-essen.de/wafe/

        ftp://ftp.wu-wien.ac.at/pub/src/X11/wafe/
        ftp://ftp.wu-wien.ac.at/pub/src/X11/wafe/1.0.20/wafe-1.0.20.tar.gz
        ftp://ftp.wu-wien.ac.at/pub/src/X11/wafe/Xaw3d-1.3.2-src.tar.gz
        http://www.inria.fr/koala/jml/jml.html

Description: Application forming an interface to the Tcl binding to Xt

        and various widget sets like Athena (Xaw3d),
        OSF/Motif (1.1 to 2.0), and others.  At the above FTP site are
        many other associated tar files, such as Linux binaries, Xaw3d,
        documentation, etc.  Wafe can be used as a frontend for programs
        in arbitrary programming languages (there are example programs
        written in Perl and Python contained in the package).
        As of version v1.0.18 Wafe supports the Kino widget class,
        Mosaic HTML widget, plotter widgets, XmGraph widget,
        Layout widget, tree widget, XbaeMatrix widget,
        Ghostview widget, Eurobridge widget, analog clock widget,
        most of the FWF widget classes, libWWW, LDAP library and more.
        Wafe supports graphic formats such as XBM, XPM, GIF, JPEG,
        and PNG.  Various object oriented Tcl extensions such as OTcl
        or itcl are also supported.  SSLEAY is supported.  Available in
        RedHat's .rpm format.  The current version
        supports Tcl 8.0, SSL streams, the choice of Tcl
        or Xt event loop, as well as a number of new modules.  Package
        includes cineast, an extensible WWW browser, written using Otcl
        and Wafe.  Other sample applications, such as htmlEdit, cpu-bars,
        gsv, pinger, xwafemail, etc. are also included.
        In version v1.0.19, Tcl_Objects are supported, UTF support when
         used with Tcl 8.1, Knvas widgets, Kino-2 widgets.
        Currently at version 1.0.20.
 Updated: 04/2006
 Contact: mailto:wafe@wu-wien.ac.at  (WaFE mailing list)

 What: tkSound
 Where: ftp://sound.media.mit.edu/pub/Code/tksound-1995jan21.tar.gz
        http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/%7Edpwe/tkSound.html
 Description: Sound file examiner.  Comes with a new tcl command
        to instance tcl objects corresponding to AIFF files, a tk widget
        to display sound data as a wafe form, a widget to display a
        labeled axis, a widget to display a 2D array of bytes
        as a greyscale image, as well as a couple of applications.
 Updated: 05/1997
 Contact: mailto:dpwe@media.mit.edu (Dan Ellis)

 What: FSP client
 Where: ftp://genie.lut.ac.uk/murf/
 Description: Wafe/Perl based interface to FSP.
 Updated:
 Contact: mailto:M.T.Hamilton@lut.ac.uk (Martin Hamilton)

 What: Tk Perl 4 (Grobgeld)
 Where: ftp://ftp.cis.ufl.edu/pub/perl/scripts/wish.pl.gz
 Description: Perl 4 library for accessing the Tcl/Tk interpreter
        from within Perl. Based on PerlWafe.
        This is different from the pTk extension.
 Updated:
 Contact: mailto:dov@menora.weizmann.ac.il (Dov Grobgeld)

 What: Wafe graphical cross-reference browser
 Where: From the contact
 Description: A graphical interface to cref written in Wafe and Perl.
 Updated:
 Contact: mailto:mikee@rambo.aadt.com (Mike Eggleston) ???

 What: Wafeperl
 Where: ftp://ftp.wu-wien.ac.at/pub/src/X11/wafe/wafeperl-0.2.tar.gz
 Description: A version of Perl enhanced with Wafe extensions. Contact
        has also posted at least one patch. Also included in Wafe 1.0
        distribution.
 Updated:
 Contact: mailto:neumann@wi-inf.uni-essen.de (Gustaf Neumann)

 What: Wafepython
 Where: From the contact
 Description: An extension to Python allowing one to build
        graphical user interfaces based on OSF/Motif or Athena Widgets.
        Uses Wafe (Tcl/Xt/Extensions/Widgets) to gain access to the
        widgets. Also included in Wafe 1.0 distribution.
 Updated:
 Contact: mailto:neumann@wi-inf.uni-essen.de (Gustaf Neumann)

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