A user interface markup language is a markup language that renders and describes graphical user interfaces and controls. Many of these markup languages are dialects of XML and are dependent upon a pre-existing scripting language engine, usually a JavaScript engine, for rendering of controls and extra scriptability.
47-675: On Misplaced Pages, " WP:XFD " refers to the deletion discussion venues. XFD or xfd may refer to: XML Form Definition , a user interface markup language .xfd, a filename extension sometimes used for files in the Extensible Forms Description Language Douglas XFD , a 1933 naval fighter aircraft prototype McDonnell XFD-1 Phantom , a 1945 naval fighter aircraft prototype The last column name in Microsoft Excel, XFD Topics referred to by
94-665: A Java Client or an Ajax Client. Scalable Vector Graphics is a markup language for graphics proposed by the W3C that can support rich graphics for web and mobile applications. While SVG is not a user interface language, it includes support for vector/raster graphics, animation, interaction with the DOM and CSS, embedded media, events and scriptability. When these features are used in combination, rich user interfaces are possible. SVG can also be superimposed upon another XML-compatible user interface markup language, such as XUL and XForms , as
141-427: A declarative scripting language called QML that allows using JavaScript to provide the logic. With Qt Quick, rapid application development for mobile devices became possible, while logic can still be written with native code as well to achieve the best possible performance. Other features include SQL database access, XML parsing, JSON parsing, thread management and network support. The latest version of
188-567: A non-GUI program using Qt is the Cutelyst web framework . Qt supports various C++ compilers, including the GCC and Clang C++ compilers and the Visual Studio suite. It supports other languages with bindings or extensions, such as Python via Python bindings and PHP via an extension for PHP5, and has extensive internationalization support. Qt also provides Qt Quick , that includes
235-511: A server-side transformation engine that transforms the XFD into HTML5 compatible data designed to run on any HTML5 compliant browser. XFD is programmable in JavaScript based language. QML is a cross-platform markup language for creating hardware-accelerated OpenGL-powered user interfaces for devices ranging from mobile to desktop. QML interfaces are manipulated using the JavaScript language. QML
282-473: A visual tool where developers do not even need to understand the underlying markups. I3ML is a proprietary thin client Application Delivery mechanism developed by CoKinetic Systems Corp Archived 23 January 2021 at the Wayback Machine , with client support provided by a browser plugin that will render windows-like applications over an HTTP infrastructure with minimal bandwidth needs. OpenLaszlo
329-524: Is a cross-platform IDE for C++ and QML. Qt Designer 's GUI layout/design functionality is integrated into the IDE, although Qt Designer can still be started as a standalone tool. In addition to Qt Creator, Qt provides qmake , a cross-platform build script generation tool that automates the generation of Makefiles for development projects across different platforms. There are other tools available in Qt, including
376-692: Is a runtime environment that comprises a runtime environment and an interface definition language (Laszlo XML - LZX). LZX is a declarative user interface language which defines the widgets, application layout and scripting elements (using JavaScript) to create your application. LZX is runtime agnostic with the currently supported runtime being within Macromedia/Adobe Flash. An experimental runtime called Laszlo "Legals" that will allow OpenLaszlo (LZX) applications run in multiple runtime environments, such as DHTML/AJAX. H ierarchical M odel V iew C ontroller U ser I nterface L anguage ( HMVCUL )
423-422: Is a universal, declarative , multiple abstraction level , XML -based language for modelling interactive applications in ubiquitous environments. FXML is a XML -based language for defining the user interface of JavaFX applications. Other markup languages incorporated into existing frameworks are: Apple's Interface Builder .xib format Some of these are compiled into binary forms. In avionics ,
470-473: Is an XML markup user interface language which supports the creation and chaining of atomic MVC triad components used in constructing HMVC GUI applications. The associated runtime provides methods which enable configuration of properties, data binding and events of each of the MVC triad elements (widget, controller, model). The runtime accomplishes this by mapping XML elements defined in an HMVCUL file to objects inside
517-473: Is an XML-based markup language used for building Apache Pivot applications. Though it is most commonly used for defining the structure of an application's user interface, it can be used to declaratively construct any type of Java object hierarchy. eXtensible Application Language is the Markup language of Nexaweb's Enterprise Web 2.0 Suite. Developers can use this language to define applications that will run as
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#1732780242190564-536: Is an XML-compliant markup language that describes the UI for multiple contexts of use such as Character User Interfaces (CUIs), Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), Auditory User Interfaces, and Multimodal User Interfaces. In other words, interactive applications with different types of interaction techniques, modalities of use, and computing platforms can be described in a way that preserves the design independently from peculiar characteristics of physical computing platform. WTKX
611-717: Is available under the following free software licenses: GPL 2.0 , GPL 3.0 , LGPL 3.0 and LGPL 2.1 (with Qt special exception). Note that some modules are available only under a GPL license, which means that applications which link to these modules need to comply with that license. In addition, Qt has always been available under a commercial license, like the Qt Commercial License, that allows developing proprietary applications with no restrictions on licensing. Qt comes with its own set of tools to ease cross-platform development, which can otherwise be cumbersome due to different set of development tools. Qt Creator
658-504: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages XML Form Definition The concept of the user interface markup languages is primarily based upon the desire to prevent the " re-invention of the wheel " in the design, development and function of a user interface; such re-invention comes in the form of coding a script for the entire user interface. The typical user interface markup language solidifies often re-used program or script code in
705-463: Is more ambitious than that of most user interface markup languages, since program logic and styles are also embedded in the XAML document. Functionally, it can be seen as a combination of XUL, SVG, CSS, and JavaScript into a single XML schema. Some people are critical of this design, as many standards (such as those already listed) exist for doing these things. However, it is expected to be developed with
752-625: Is part of the Qt software framework . MXML is the XML-based user interface markup language introduced by Macromedia in March 2004. It is now part of the open-source ( http://opensource.adobe.com ) Adobe Flex SDK version 4. MXML files compile into Flash SWF via the Flex SDK, and are rendered either on the internet browser, via Adobe Flash plug-in, or as stand-alone cross-platform applications, via
799-559: Is supported until 26 May 2025. Additionally the KDE project provides unofficial support for, at least, Qt 5.15, i.e. not just for commercial users. In 2017, the Qt Company estimated a community of about 1 million developers worldwide in over 70 industries. Graphical user-interfaces and desktop environments that utilize Qt/QML as widget toolkit: Many notable open-source or proprietary cross-platform software are using Qt or QML : Qt
846-764: Is under the open source licenses, while the Indie Mobile, Professional and Enterprise versions, which contain additional functionality and libraries, e.g. Enterprise Controls are commercially sold by The Qt Company. Qt works on many different platforms; the following are officially supported: After Nokia opened the Qt source code to the community on Gitorious , various ports appeared. There are also some ports of Qt that may be available, but are not supported anymore. These platforms are listed in List of platforms supported by Qt . See also there for current community support for other lesser known platforms, such as SailfishOS . Qt
893-405: Is used for developing graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and multi-platform applications that run on all major desktop platforms and mobile or embedded platforms. Most GUI programs created with Qt have a native-looking interface, in which case Qt is classified as a widget toolkit . Non-GUI programs can also be developed, such as command-line tools and consoles for servers. An example of such
940-422: Is utilized by a wide range of companies and organizations such as Qt is built on these key concepts: Starting with Qt 4.0 the framework was split into individual modules. With Qt 5.0 the architecture was modularized even further. Qt is now split into essential and add-on modules. There are four editions of Qt available: Community , Indie Mobile , Professional and Enterprise . The Community version
987-715: The ARINC 661 standard prescribes a binary format to define user interfaces in glass cockpits . Borland VCL forms (.dfm and .lfm) are text files describing the windows of Delphi and Lazarus applications. They are compiled into the final executable in binary format, and use RTTI to function. Qt (software) Qt (pronounced "cute" or as an initialism ) is a cross-platform application development framework for creating graphical user interfaces as well as cross-platform applications that run on various software and hardware platforms such as Linux , Windows , macOS , Android or embedded systems with little or no change in
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#17327802421901034-489: The Windows Phone platform instead (and since then support for that platform has also been dropped). One month later, Nokia announced the sale of Qt's commercial licensing and professional services to Digia, with the immediate goal of taking Qt support to Android , iOS and Windows 8 platforms, and to continue focusing on desktop and embedded development, although Nokia was to remain the main development force behind
1081-497: The source code under the Qt Free Edition License . This license was viewed as not compliant with the free software definition by Free Software Foundation because, while the source was available, it did not allow the redistribution of modified versions. Trolltech used this license until version 1.45. Controversy erupted around 1998 when it became clear that the K Desktop Environment was going to become one of
1128-606: The Nokia Qt SDK was released on 23 June 2010. The source code was made available over Gitorious, a community oriented git source code repository, with a goal of creating a broader community using and improving Qt. On 14 January 2009, Qt version 4.5 added another option, the LGPL , to make Qt more attractive for both non-GPL open source projects and closed applications. In February 2011, Nokia announced its decision to drop Symbian technologies and base their future smartphones on
1175-892: The Qt Designer interface builder and the Qt Assistant help browser (which are both embedded in Qt Creator), the Qt Linguist translation tool, uic (user interface compiler), and moc (Meta-Object Compiler). In the summer of 1990, Haavard Nord and Eirik Chambe-Eng (the original developers of Qt and the CEO and President, respectively, of Trolltech ) were working together on a database application for ultrasound images written in C++ and running on Mac OS , Unix , and Microsoft Windows . They began development of "Qt" in 1991, three years before
1222-489: The Qt Framework is Qt 6.8, which was released on October 8, 2024. Also still supported are — for commercial users — 6.5 LTS, released on April 3, 2023, 6.2 LTS, released on 30 September 2021, and 5.15 LTS, released on 26 May 2020 – long-term support (LTS) versions are generally supported for three years with a commercial license, while 5.15 support was extended to five years for subscription license holders, and so it
1269-471: The Qt business and copyrights to their wholly owned subsidiary, The Qt Company, which owns 25 brands related to Qt. In May 2016, Digia and Qt demerged completely into two independent companies. Qt 5 was officially released on 19 December 2012. This new version marked a major change in the platform, with hardware-accelerated graphics, QML and JavaScript playing a major role. The traditional C++-only QWidgets continued to be supported, but did not benefit from
1316-597: The Wasabi SDK . The root element in WasabiXML is <WasabiXML> (for Winamp skins, it is also <WinampAbstractionLayer> ). The <skininfo> element shows the information for a skin. The graphical interface is held by the <container> element and the basic viewable GUI element is <layout> . Following is an example for a simple GUI with a button element: WasabiXML supports many GUI elements including: <groupdef> allows
1363-481: The company was incorporated as Quasar Technologies, then changed the name to Troll Tech and then to Trolltech. The toolkit was called Qt because the letter Q looked appealing in Haavard's Emacs typeface, and "t" was inspired by Xt , the X toolkit. The first two versions of Qt had only two flavors: Qt/X11 for Unix and Qt/Windows for Windows. On 20 May 1995 Trolltech publicly released Qt 0.90 for X11/Linux with
1410-525: The creation of the KDE Free Qt foundation, which guarantees that Qt would fall under a BSD-style license should no free/open source version of Qt be released during 12 months. In 2000, Qt/X11 2.2 was released under the GPL v2, ending all controversy regarding GPL compatibility . At the end of 2001, Trolltech released Qt 3.0, which added support for Mac OS X (now known as macOS ). The Mac OS X support
1457-409: The developer to define a group of GUI objects which can be re-used anywhere in the skin. Wasabi also supports XUI's which are nothing but <groups> powered by a MAKI script allowing developers to create GUI components (widgets) of their own adding to modularity. WasabiXML has an XML namespace 'Wasabi::' which defines common GUI's without having the need to declare their image paths. MARIA
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1504-555: The final application to be licensed under various GPL-incompatible free software / open source licenses such as the Mozilla Public License 1.1. Nokia acquired Trolltech ASA on 17 June 2008 and changed the name first to Qt Software, then to Qt Development Frameworks. Nokia focused on turning Qt into the main development platform for its devices, including a port to the Symbian S60 platform . Version 1.0 of
1551-412: The form of markup, making it easier to focus upon design of a user interface in an understandable dialect as opposed to focus on function. User interface markup languages, like most markup and programming languages, rely upon sub-application runtimes to interpret and render the markup code as program code that can be processed and put out in the desired form. In XML-based user interface markup languages,
1598-478: The framework at that time. In March 2011, Nokia sold the commercial licensing part of Qt to Digia, creating Qt Commercial. In August 2012, Digia announced that it would acquire Qt from Nokia. The Qt team at Digia started their work in September 2012. They released Qt 5.0 within a month and newer versions every six months with new features and additional supported platforms. In September 2014, Digia transferred
1645-542: The framework, attributes to properties or to events. Chaining is accomplished by following the tree structure described inside the HMVCUL file. WasabiXML is an XML markup language that is used to define the graphical interface in Wasabi powered applications. It is most commonly used with Winamp for making Winamp skins . WasabiXML had been developed by Nullsoft for Winamp, but it is also usable with other applications with
1692-556: The graphics-rich portion of a user interface. TUIX is an XML based markup language for defining user interfaces in Tribiq CMS. Developers can define both the appearance of the interfaces and their interactions. The TUIX files from different Plugins are merged before rendering facilitating easy modification of existing interfaces and addition of new functionality. XAML is a markup system that underlies user interface components of Microsoft's .NET Framework 3.0 and above. Its scope
1739-421: The leading desktop environments for Linux. As it was based on Qt, many people in the free software movement worried that an essential piece of one of their major operating systems would be proprietary. The Windows platform was available only under a proprietary license, which meant free/open source applications written in Qt for X11 could not be ported to Windows without purchasing the proprietary edition. With
1786-413: The markup is usually interpreted and represented as a tree of nodes that may be manipulated at runtime by the application's code or dynamically loaded user script . HTML which stands for H yper T ext M arkup L anguage is a markup language used for building web pages to be displayed in a web browser . It is often combined with CSS (for styling) and JavaScript (for interactivity). Most websites in
1833-634: The open development of Qt via the Qt Project. One such Qt contributor is Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, a Swedish Qt consulting company. KDAB is involved in many areas, including maintenance of several components. Together with RIM/BlackBerry , KDAB is maintaining the QNX and BlackBerry 10 ports of Qt. Another participator is Intel , contributing for example Wayland support. AudioCodes maintains IBM ClearCase support in Qt Creator . As
1880-606: The open-source Adobe AIR SDK. OASIS UIML is an XML-based standard user interface markup languages. It is an open standard where implementation is not restricted to a single vendor. The primary interface language of Mozilla Foundation products is XUL . XUL documents are rendered by the Gecko engine, which also renders XHTML and SVG documents. It cooperates with many existing standards and technologies, including CSS , JavaScript , DTD and RDF . UsiXML (which stands for Us er I nterface E x tensible M arkup L anguage)
1927-437: The performance improvements available through the new architecture. Qt 5 brings significant improvements to the speed and ease of developing user interfaces. Framework development of Qt 5 moved to open governance at qt-project.org, which made it possible for developers outside Digia to submit patches for review. Aside from The Qt Company, many organizations and individuals using Qt as their development platform participate in
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1974-541: The release of version 2.0 of the toolkit in mid-1999, the license was changed to the Q Public License (QPL), a free software license, but one regarded by the Free Software Foundation as incompatible with the GPL. Compromises were sought between KDE and Trolltech whereby Qt would not be able to fall under a more restrictive license than the QPL, even if Trolltech was bought out or went bankrupt. This led to
2021-403: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title XFD . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=XFD&oldid=1183344510 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
2068-486: The underlying codebase while still being a native application with native capabilities and speed. Qt is currently being developed by The Qt Company , a publicly listed company, and the Qt Project under open-source governance , involving individual developers and organizations working to advance Qt. Qt is available under both commercial licenses and open-source GPL 2.0, GPL 3.0, and LGPL 3.0 licenses. Qt
2115-620: The world are built using HTML as it is the standard language supported by web browsers. XFD, which stands for X ML F orm D efinition is the user interface markup language behind STARLIMS product ( [1] ), developed by Abbott Informatics. STARLIMS product has an entire ecosystem of runtime and design time tools to run and create visual forms using XFD language. STARLIMS v10 is powered by an XFD runtime developed using Microsoft .NET Framework and hosted in Internet Explorer browser. STARLIMS v11 introduces an additional XFD engine based on
2162-500: Was available only in the proprietary license until June 2003, when Trolltech released Qt 3.2 with Mac OS X support available under the GPL. In 2002, members of the KDE on Cygwin project began porting the GPL licensed Qt/X11 code base to Windows. This was in response to Trolltech's refusal to license Qt/Windows under the GPL on the grounds that Windows was not a free/open source software platform. The project achieved reasonable success although it never reached production quality. This
2209-506: Was resolved when Trolltech released Qt 4.0 also for Windows under the GPL in June 2005. Qt 4 supported the same set of platforms in the free software/open source editions as in the proprietary edition, so it is possible, with Qt 4.0 and later releases, to create GPL-licensed free/open source applications using Qt on all supported platforms. The GPL v3 with special exception was later added as an added licensing option. The GPL exception allows
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