WBUILD ====== Wbuild is a program for easier creating of X widgets. It reads abbreviated code from a file and expands it with the boilerplate code that every widget must have. It also generates the documentation. Wbuild is a tool for the widget writer. It has three goals: (1) making widget writing easier, (2) making it more object-oriented, and (3) encouraging `literate programming'. It does this in the same way that yacc helps in writing compilers: it lets the programmer write code that is close to the concepts in his head. With yacc the concept is grammar-rules, with Wbuild it is OOP. The input to Wbuild is an object-oriented description of a widget. There are sections for private and public variables, methods, private functions, etc. But all the structs, macros, header files and functions that are needed to trick C into object-orientedness remain hidden. Inheritance is automatic, which means that one has to write only the code that makes a widget different from its superclass. Even the manual is created automatically. Documentation can be written directly into the source. Documentation and code are formatted together with nroff or TeX. You may need to install bison and/or flex if you encounter problems. AUTHORS ======= Bert Bos <bert@let.rug.nl> Alfa-informatica, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands August 1992 - June 1995 Joel N. Weber II <devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu> June 1996 - ? FTP === Wbuild is available from either ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/fwf ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu
