OLIT (OPEN LOOK Intrinsics Toolkit
) is a
widget toolkit
A widget toolkit, widget library, GUI toolkit, or UX library is a library or a collection of libraries containing a set of graphical control elements (called ''widgets'') used to construct the graphical user interface (GUI) of programs.
Most widge ...
from
Sun Microsystems introduced in 1988, providing an
OPEN LOOK
OPEN LOOK (sometimes referred to as Open Look) is a graphical user interface (GUI) specification for UNIX workstations. It was originally defined in the late 1980s by Sun Microsystems and AT&T Corporation.
History
OPEN LOOK was created at a ...
user interface for
X Window System
The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.
X provides the basic framework for a GUI environment: drawing and moving windows on the display device and interacting wi ...
applications. It provides an
Xt application programming interface for the
C programming language, providing an easy way for those familiar with Xt programming to implement the OPEN LOOK
look and feel
In software design, the look and feel of a graphical user interface comprises aspects of its design, including elements such as colors, shapes, layout, and typefaces (the "look"), as well as the behavior of dynamic elements such as buttons, boxe ...
.
OLIT became obsolete when Sun abandoned OPEN LOOK as part of the UNIX industry's
COSE initiative, in favor of
Motif (the basis of
CDE), which in turn was later superseded by
GTK
GTK (formerly GIMP ToolKit and GTK+) is a free and open-source cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs). It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, allowing both free and propriet ...
(the basis of
GNOME).
See also
*
XView
XView is a widget toolkit from Sun Microsystems introduced in 1988. It provides an OPEN LOOK user interface for X Window System applications, with an object-oriented application programming interface (API) for the C programming language. Its in ...
*
MoOLIT
*
OpenWindows
OpenWindows is a discontinued desktop environment for Sun Microsystems workstations which combined SunView, NeWS, and X Window System protocols. OpenWindows was included in later releases of the SunOS 4 and Solaris operating systems, until its r ...
References
External links
OLIT Reference Manual 1994 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Widget toolkits
Sun Microsystems software
X-based libraries