The X-Toolkit Cookbook

by Kimball, Paul E.

• ISBN13: 9780139731327
• ISBN10: 0139731326
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-01-05
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

This tutorial and reference provides application programmers working in X environments recipes that enables them to become quickly productive using any of the major X Toolkits, including OSF/Motif. The X Toolkit, a part of the X Window system from MIT, is a standard programming interface for building and manipulating user interface tools. It has a very steep learning curve and available material is geared toward those who aready understand it.Covers the latest release of the X Window System (X11R6). The author is a leading authority on the X Window system. Provides a set of tutorial examples which demonstrate the major features of X Toolkits in the order in which they would be encountered in writing a real application.For software developers, application programmers, and interested users of commercial windows systems who want to know more about X Toolkits and how to use them in building applications.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The "X" Window System and How It Works

The Xtoolkit Intrinsics

Let's Get Started - Building a Simple Application

Customizing Applications as a User

Changing and Querying Widget State Inside a Program

How to Manage Widgets on the Screen

Shells and Popups

Handling Flow of Control in an Application

Advanced Flow of Control - Translation Management

Writing Graphics Applications with Xtoolkits and Xlib

The MIT Athena Widgets

OSF/Motif

Digital's DECwindows

At&t's Open Look

Using Widgets from Different Toolkits Together

Building Your Own Special-Purpose Widgets

The Future of Xtoolkit Systems

Appendices

Index

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