- GPHIGS-GUI is used to integrate GPHIGS and PHIGURE libraries in Motif and offers objects (widgets) to simplify the handling, programing and use of graphic objects.
- GPHIGS-GUI operates on CSS, whether it is sourced from an archive file or built by an application. The toolkit integrates functions which are no longer to be accomodated at the applications level (printing, viewing ... ), as well as functions that provide time savings for modifying and developing (debugger graphic, browser)
GPHIGS-GUI may be used in different ways. All the functions are assembled in popup-menu widget and can be accessed via a mouse click in the workstation. The list of icons in this popup-menu can be configured. Moreover, the popup-menu is itself made up of widgets which may also be used in the application. Finally, all these widgets can be accessed from a straightforward C call and may be used in any program (pxgui_xxx function).
Example : Popup-menu widget contains a camera icon to interactively generate movements in space. However, this function is also a widget, and is therefore possible in an application to use this widget only and not the popup-menu by creating this widget explicitly, if it operates in a Motif application, or by calling the corresponding pxgui_xxx function if it is a context other that Motif.