Books : X Toolkit Intrinsics Prog Vol 4M: Motif Edition (Definitive Guides to the X Window System)
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by: Adrian Nye, Tim O'Reilly
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.43
EAN: 9781565920132
ISBN: 1565920139
Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 712
Publication Date: August 02, 1992
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Sales Rank: 1168300
Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Product Description:
Volume 4 is a complete guide to programming with the X Toolkit Intrinsics, the library of C language routines that facilitates the design of user interfaces with reusable components called widgets. It provides concepts and examples that show how to use the various X Toolkit routines. The first few chapters are devoted to using widgets; the remainder of the book covers the more complex task of writing new widgets. Uses the Motif 1.2 widget set in examples and covers X11 Release 5. Volume 4 includes: - Introduction to the X Window System.
- Building applications with widgets.
- Constructing a bitmap editor with widgets.
- An overview of each widget in the widget set.
- Basic widget methods./li>
- Events, translations, and accelerators.
- Event handlers, timeouts, and work procedures.
- Resource management and type conversion.
- Selections and window manager interaction.
- Geometry management.
- Menus, gadgets, and cascaded pop-ups.
- Miscellaneous techniques.
- Comparison of Athena, OSF/Motif, and AT&T OPEN LOOK widgets.
This book is designed to be used with Volume 5, X Toolkit Intrinsics Reference Manual, which provides reference pages for each of the Xt functions, the widget classes defined by Xt, and the Athena widget set.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Hardly relevant for anyone...
This book must have been a major inspirational source for developers of toolkits not based on Xt. Because after reading the book, you will know why Xt was a giant mistake that only served to introduce additional problems into GUI programming.
For some reason, the book does not focus on Motif, but on Xaw, a completely useless set of widgets hacked onto Xt as a proof of concept. True, there are some free software programs using Xaw, but that was because they were written before other alternatives ... Read More
Rating:  - good, considering age and subject matter
Even though this book is a bit musty as GUI programming goes, this should probably be on the shelf of most X programmers even today, particularly Motif programmers. Too much of the book is focused on Xaw (that stupid-looking widget set used in things like 'xterm' and 'xdvi') to make it a five-star pick. However, this is useful to more modern GUI programmers since it demonstrates technique in an environment which is simpler than Motif. Also, the book's most redeeming feature is that it sheds at least ... Read More
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