A cross-platform distributed language that provides interactive 2D and 3D graphical services. Now any language that can communicate via sockets has extensive interactive graphical capabilities.

Earthquake activity application using Bat

What is different about Bat?

Bat is a simple language dedicated to interactive graphics.

There are no language bindings to deal with. An application can display a graphical front-end by simply describing the scene to display to the Bat server via standard sockets.

The communication protocol ensures that the application can send commands and recieve events with the minimum of effort.

Bat allows the user to build interactive graphical components that can be reused by different application even if those application are written in different languages.

Graphical front ends and their behavior can be separate from the business logic of your application. This allows you to modify the look and feel of the GUI without touching your application.

Bat should build on your machine with negligable library requirements. On Linux it requires libpthread, and there are no extra libraries required for Windows.

Why Create Bat?

Reasons why existing GUI solutions were inadequate for my needs:

• Most libraries only support 2D graphics
• Too many competeing libraries.
• Version conflicts within the same graphical libraries
• Extensive and confusing library dependancies
• Library bindings not written for every language or not maintained equaly

Installation

1. Get the Bat package and unzip it.
2. Go into the directory you just unzipped.
3. Type "make", this will compile Bat.
4. Now lets intall it.

   Linux

   • Type "su" and enter the root password
   • Type "make install"

   Windows

   • Type "make install"
5. Now we will start the daemon process by typing "batd"
6. Lets run the simple Bat client

   specify bat location

   • Type "bat localhost:3666"

   location defined in environment variable

   • Set the environment variable "BATSERV" to "localhost:3666"
   • Type "bat"

Screenshots

Standard GUI Elements

Integrated Cirbuit Layouts

Chemical Examples

3D Model Examples

Synthesized 3D Examples