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Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual
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Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual

by David Brennan, Dan Heller, Paula Ferguson
September 1993
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1014 pages
28h 26m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual
This resource setting causes each Label widget to have a foreground color of red, regardless of the name of the widget
(and provided that the resource value is not hard−coded for the widget). See Volume Four, X Toolkit Intrinsics
Programming Manual, for a discussion of appropriate widget names and further details on resource specification
syntax.
3.3.6 Event Handling for Widgets
Once we have created and configured the widgets for an application, they must be hooked up to application functions
via callback resources. Before we can talk about callback resources and callback functions, we need to discuss events
and event handling. In one sense, the essence of X programming is the handling of asynchronous events. Events can
occur in any order, in any window, as the user moves the pointer, switches between the mouse and the keyboard,
moves and resizes windows, and invokes functions available through user interface components. X handles events by
dispatching them to the appropriate application and to the separate windows that make up each application.
Xlib provides many low−level functions for handling events. In special cases, which are described later in this book,
you may need to dip down to this level to handle events. However, Xt simplifies event handling by having widgets
handle many events for you, without any application interaction. For example, widgets know how to redraw
themselves, so they respond automatically to WExpose events, which are generated when one window is covered up
by another ...
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