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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 William F. Mitchell | [log in to unmask] Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division | [log in to unmask] National Institute of Standards and Technology | Voice: (301) 975-3808 Gaithersburg, MD 20899 | Fax: (301) 990-4127 http://math.nist.gov/acmd/Staff/WMitchell/ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%