An X11 Motif visual IDE for your retro desktop. Inspired by Visual Basic. UI builder, code editor, all right in the app. Works best if you have Motif and you're on MaXX. This is still under heavy WIP, so expect missing buttons (intentionally commented out until ready for production) in order to comply with shipping standards!

Precaution: this app is Linux only. We do not provide options for other platforms. Your best bet, if running on other platforms, is to use a Linux desktop virtual machine, or use WSL2 (if you are on Windows, I am not sure)

To build, you would require:

• cmake
• g++
• Devel files of:
  • libX11
  • libXt
  • libXmu
  • libXm
  • libXpm

shortcuts.sh provide a wide range of options to build and run.

• build: Builds the project
• clean: Cleans the build directory
• run: Runs the project
• quick: Builds and runs the project
• appimage: Builds an AppImage of the project

Before launching shortcuts.sh, you can prepend the VARIANT variable. That being either GENERIC or IRIX (e.g. VARIANT=GENERIC ./shortcuts.sh quick).

GENERIC will take your system's local Motif libraries and compile with that (typically under /usr/lib and /usr/lib/include, though this may vary).

IRIX will take all libraries that are in /opt/MaXX/include and /opt/MaXX/lib64. IMPORTANT: Do not run the IRIX version if you are not running MaXX or does not have the original theme files. Technically, it will still work, however, expect the rest to black out.

To build and run for an MaXX desktop:

VARIANT=IRIX ./shortcuts.sh quick

To build generically without environment variables (okay!):

./shortcuts.sh build