Roger Glover wrote:
> > - They need X11/motif capabilities: I agree with them that Fortran
> > lacks graphical interfaces.
>
> There are graphics and GUI libraries for Fortran (check the Fortran
> Market), but they are generally proprietary, extremely hardware- or
> OS-dependant, and/or less than state-of-the-art. I would be more
> than happy for someone to prove me wrong.
OpenGL is a state-of-the-art 2D and 3D graphics library with an open standard
and is available on nearly every platform, plus there is Mesa, a freely-
distributable source code implementation of the OpenGL API. A Fortran 90
binding for OpenGL has been defined which allows users to write standard
conforming portable Fortran programs that use the OpenGL library. A public
domain implementation of the Fortran 90 interface is available at
http://math.nist.gov/f90gl. This implementation has been tested on several
Unix systems. A new implementation is currently underway, and will also
support Windows/DOS systems, F, ELF90, and maybe Macs.
Does that meet your criteria?
-- Bill
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