Don's Class Application (DCLAP) library is a C++ class library for building applications on the common windowing operating systems (Macintosh, MS-Windows, XWindow-Motif and possibly others).
The DCLAP code also contains source code for GopherPup and SeqPup. This may be of historic interest as it is an early cross-platform Gopher+ client with many advanced features.
I could find two released of DCLAP, 5b and 6d. Both are included here, please see Github tags.
Don's Class Application (DCLAP) library is a C++ class library for building applications on the common windowing operating systems (Macintosh, MS-Windows, XWindow-Motif and possibly others).
This is built on the cross-platform toolkit from National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), called NCBI toolkit, and especially the Vibrant window system subset, plus the corelib subset. This toolkit is written in ANSI C, and compiles on a variety of systems. The source for NCBI tools is available for anonymous ftp from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov as /toolbox/ncbi_tools/ncbi.tar.Z
Most of this toolkit is directed toward manipulation biosequence data. The sections of it required for DCLAP are:
corelib/ -- basic library of ansi-c additions/enhancements
vibrant/ -- user-interface (GUI) library, in c
make/ -- instructions for compiling (see though dclap's Dmake/)
network/nsclilib/ -- need one or more headers from here
network/apple -- for Macs, fetch added source from ...
network/ncsasock -- support berkely style sockets w/ MacTCP
network/winsock -- windows sockets interface, fetch added source from, e.g.,
ftp://SunSite.UNC.EDU:/pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock/winsock-1.1/...
The release of NCBI toolkit for which dclap is tested will be available at ftp.bio.indiana.edu:/util/dclap/from-ncbi/. Look for a file "ncbi.diff" for any differences between the ncbi toolkit and what is required for dclap.
DCLAP is still very preliminary. There is yet no detailed documentation for it. It is based loosely on the MacApp and TCL application class libraries available on Macintosh, but is structured to use the available Vibrant toolkit methods.
The only platforms I've tested it with are Macintosh-Think C 6-Symantec C++, Sun-GCC/G++-Motif, and MS Windows-Borland C++. To compile with ThinkC/C++, see Dmake/mac-thc/. To compile with GCC/G++, see the Dmake/unix-gcc/. To compile with Borland C++, see Dmake/mswin-bor/. See NCBI's toolkit for further compiling instructions.
Source and updates will be available thru ftp/gopher at ftp.bio.indiana.edu, /util/dclap... Currently there are three sets of source required to compile dclap applications: dclap.tar.Z -- general application framework classes source dbio.tar.Z -- biosequence specific classes source ncbi.tar.Z -- NCBI's toolkit source ncbi.diff -- any patches to NCBI's toolkit needed for dclap
See the /util/dclap/utils section for Mac and MSWin tar and compress programs to open the unix standard .tar.Z files.
Current applications written w/ Dclap include GopherPup -- Internet gopher+ client SeqPup -- biosequence editor and analysis platform MyApp -- demonstration program StripPS -- simple filter program (postscript to plain text) MailHelp -- simple email-to-help-desk app
I'd like to thank Jonathan Kans, primary author of NCBI's Vibrant user-interface, both for making this very useful code available to the community, and for his efforts to incorporate changes for DCLAP into it. There are places where DCLAP specific code is included, and so for this use, you need to compile the ncbi toolkit with DCLAP as a defined symbol.
DCLAP is copyrighted 1994 by Don Gilbert. You may use it in non-commercial software without asking additional permission, and you may freely redistribute it. See Copyright.dclap document for details.
For DCLAP bug reports, comments, etc., email to dclap@bio.indiana.edu If you are working in the biocomputing/computational biology field and want help w/ dclap, please ask. Contributions to dclap source are welcome.
-- Don Gilbert, 3 March 1994