Volume 4: X Toolkit Intrinsics Programming Manual

Volume 4: X Toolkit Intrinsics Programming Manual, Third Edition Standard Edition

By Adrian Nye, Tim O'Reilly
January 1900
Pages: 567
ISBN 10: 1-56592-003-1 | ISBN 13: 9781565920033

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A complete guide to programming with Xt Intrinsics, the library of C language routines that facilitates the design of user interfaces with reusable components called widgets. Available in two editions. The Standard Edition uses Athena widgets in examples; the Motif Edition uses Motif widgets.
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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 is available in two editions. The Standard Edition uses Athena widgets in examples for X11 Release 5 to demonstrate how to use existing widgets, while still providing a good introduction to programming with any widget set based on Xt. 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.
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.

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Third Edition: January 1900
ISBN: 1-56592-003-1
Pages: 567

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"At long last I have finally managed to get my hands on number 4 and 5 in the X Window System Seris of books from O'Reilly & Associates, and while I have only had a chance to read through them for one afternoon, I can already say that they are miles ahead of the documentation that comes on the X tape.

"Just one example. I have spent the last few days on and off trying to figure out how to specify an icon for my Xt based application to use. I was totally unable to decrypt the toolkit documentation, so one of the first things I did was lookup "icon" in the index, and there it was, right on page 278 of volume 4, not just an explanation, but example code that does exactly what I want to do.

"Other goodies: The source code to all the example programs is available on uunet and on the X11R4 contrib tape. The reference manual actually documents the class hierarchy (something you previously always had to dig up in the private .h file when you wanted to subclass something).

"The Acknowledgments section contains an apology for taking so long to get the book into print, but I am more than willing to wait for a quality product like this.

"Warning: As I said above, this is just a first impression, perhaps I will find some nits to pick as I delve deeper into them, but so far, all I have is an unqualified "Bravo!" --Message-ID:

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