The GINO graphics library was widely used in the UK university sector at the time I worked there - 1978-2002., and was available on a wide variety of hardware and operating systems. I remember the manuals being available in all of the computer centre user support departments I worked in.
2 Likes
Thanks, Jacob for the notification on Oct 2024 “departure” of I.S.S., sponsor of Winteracter. I was pleased with the system which was a very effective tool to build a GUI using FORTRAN as the core. I used Winteracter intensively in 2015 to build a GUI to nearly duplicate a former commercial package called Beam2D that analyzed continuous beams. I call my program TomBeam which is available for free from SourceForge. It has, perhaps 90% of the look and feel of Beam2D and 100% duplication of the computing accuracy/functionality, although admittedly, I don’t claim “limitless” problem size as the original author, nor did I try to offer customized colors and fonts. It analyzes continuous beams in the same spirit as Orand Systems original.
Our company, B&W, used several licenses issued by Orand but our hand were tied (non-transferable) as the licenses were limited to the XP computers they were installed on. We engineers had to borrow seat time at a colleague’s computer to run Beam2D. Our manager tried contacting Orand in Canada to find that the author/owner of the company had passed away and his wife had no interest in issuing more licenses. Nor did she want the bother of packaging and selling any backlog of installation disks, nor did their children care for this task.
To TomBeam I added capability to access AISC structural shape library and added the ability to insert intra-span hinges, a feature that can be found on certain historical bridges and machine mechanisms.
I taught myself C-sharp while still employed before retirement and wrote a pressure vessel design program which is company proprietary. C-sharp had a rudimentary GUI that allowed me to use some basic geometric shapes to show the specifics of a design and its array of openings for ASME Section 1 analysis.