Native Linux and Macintosh GUIs for mainstream development.Perforce Software have announced its first full graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to (GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. ), the Perforce Visual Client (P4V), for the Macintosh and Linux platforms. Complementing Perforce's existing interfaces command line, Windows, Web, and IDE plug-ins--the new full GUI for Mac and Linux means that Perforce can support GUI-based development across multiple platforms. Combined with Perforce Proxy (P4P P4P Pay for Performance (Medicare) P4P Proactive Network Provider Participation for P2P ), which utilises a new caching technology, Perforce's fast Software Configuration Management (SCM (1) (Software Configuration Management, Source Code Management) See configuration management. (2) See supply chain management. ) system is a suitable choice for cross platform, geographically distributed development programmes. Comment: P4V was written with Trolltech's Qt, a multiplafform C++ application development framework. This allowed one application to be written that runs on both Linux and Mac OS X operating systems. www.perforce.com |
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