X Toolkit Intrinsics programming manual / Adrian Nye, Tim O'Reilly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nye, Adrian, Author.

Contributor:

O'Reilly, Tim.

Series:

The Definitive guides to the X Window System X Toolkit Intrinsics programming manual

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

X toolkit (Computer file).

X Window System (Computer system).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume, 622 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Motif edition.

Other Title:

X toolkit intrinsics programming manual

The definitive guides to the X window system vol. volume 4

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] O'Reilly Media, Inc., 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. 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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph