GNUe Forms is a data-aware user-interface generator. In more specific terms, Forms, using a clean XML-based definition, can display the same functional user interface in various physical mediums, whether GUI, HTML, console, or via a telephone-response system. Forms is designed from the ground up to describe a functional, database-backed interface, with no emphasis on particular widget sets. A form should be equally usable in a console/text-based environment as it is in a GUI setting.

Like all GNUe tools, Forms runs on most modern platforms and can communicate with the vast majority of modern SQL-compliant database backends. With a modular user interface kit, new interface types can be quickly and easily added. Form's primary user interface is the wxPython ( http://www.wxpython.org ) toolkit, which allows us to support Windows, GTK, Mac OS/X, and OS/2 out of the box. The GNUe team is also coordinating native KDE/QT, web-based HTML, native MS Windows, text-only curses, and native GTK2 user interfaces. Forms includes support for Python-based events or triggers, for real-time validation of user data.

Forms will seemlessly work with GNUe AppServer, GNUe Navigator, and GNUe Reports if they are present. However, as part of GNUe's modular framework, Forms does not require any other GNUe tools to function.