Factor/UI

The Factor UI is a GUI toolkit together with a set of developer tools, written entirely in Factor, implemented on top of a combination of OpenGL and native platform APIs: X11, Win32 and Cocoa.

The developer tools include the graphical listener, browser and other features.

UI gadgets are rendered using the cross-platform OpenGL API, while native platform APIs are used to create windows and receive events. The platform bindings can be also used independently; X11 binding has also been used in a Factor window manager, Factory, which is no longer maintained. The Cocoa binding is used directly by the webkit-demo vocabulary in Factor.

Documentation:

• http://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-ui.html - the UI toolkit
• http://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-ui-tools.html - the UI developer tools

Screenshots:

• http://factorcode.org/factor-macosx.png
• http://factorcode.org/factor-windows7.png

The Factor UI borrows ideas from several older projects:

• CLIM
• Garnet
• Oberon