Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual

if you decide to port your application to another toolkit or even another windowing system, the more generalized your

code is, the easier it will be to bring it into a new realm successfully.

The last story we are telling is that of general programming technique. By providing you with examples of good

programming habits, styles, and usages, we hope to propagate a programming methodology that has proven to be

successful over the years. These techniques have been applied to applications that have been ported to multiple

architectures and operating systems. As an added bonus, we have thrown in a number of interesting programming

tricks. No, these are not hacks, but conveniences that are particular to C, to UNIX, or even to the X Window System.

We don't focus on these things, but they are made available to you in passing, so you should have no problem

identifying them when they come up.

This book is intended to be used as a programmer's manual, not a reference manual. Volume Six B, Motif Reference

Manual, contains reference material for all of the Motif library functions and widget classes. We have tried to identify

those features of the toolkit that are most important for general discussion, so we do not discuss every aspect of the

Motif toolkit in the body of this book.

Any major software development effort, especially in its early stages, has bugs that prevent certain features from

being used and the Motif toolkit is no exception. There are some bugs in the Motif toolkit that have not yet ...