Visix Galaxy
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- Cross platform object oriented application framework.
- Home page: http://www.visix.com/products/galaxy/
- Technical description: http://www.visix.com/td/text/text.html
- Object oriented class system written in C, with an automatic translation
to produce C++ class interfaces.
- Competes with Neuron Data Systems.
- All of Galaxy's class interfaces are documented and available to C
and C++ programmers to use and extend. It's very complex, but it provides
some very high level facilities that are useful for building heavy duty
applications, and it runs pretty fast, taking advantage of system facilities
like Display PostScript if they're present, and falling
back to its own implementation of the PostScript
rendering model if not. The philosophy is to provide high level abstractions
that insulate you from system dependencies, which are implemented in terms
of operating system services if they're available, but that also have fallback
software implementations.