Open Interface was an early
cross-platform graphical user interface toolkit by
Neuron Data
Neuron Data is an American software development company
that was founded June 1985 by Alain Rappaport, Patrick Perez and Jean-Marie Chauvet. Their first product, ''Nexpert'', was a C-based forward chaining expert system shell for the Macintosh in ...
. Released in March 1991, Open Interface featured a
WYSIWYG editor and supported
DOS
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,
Macintosh
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,
OS/2
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,
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Microsoft Windows 3.0
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, and other platforms.
The toolkit made use of
widgets and produced ANSI C code.
The product was well received and considered an industry standard at the time.
Neuron Data sold the rights to the product to HCL where it continues its life under the Presenter5 name.
Awards
*
X Journal 1995 Editor's Choice Award
References
Widget toolkits
Cross-platform software
Application programming interfaces
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