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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
4 Overview of the Motif Toolkit
This chapter helps the reader understand the components of a real Motif application. It discusses how to handle the
geometry management of primitive widgets within a manager widget, when to put components into the main window,
when to use dialog boxes and menus, and how to relate to the window manager. After reading this chapter, the
programmer should have a solid overview of Motif application programming, and she should be able to read the
remaining chapters in any order.
In Chapter 2, The Motif Programming Model, we talked about the basic structure of an Xt−based program. We
described how to initialize the toolkit, create and configure widgets, link them to the application, and turn control over
to Xt's main loop. In this chapter, we discuss the widgets in the Motif toolkit and how you can put them together to
create an effective user interface for an application.
If you already have a basic understanding of the Motif widgets, you can jump ahead to any of the later chapters in the
book that focus on individual widget classes. This chapter provides some insight into the design of the widgets and a
general overview of the Motif style and methodology, which you may find useful when developing your own
applications.
This chapter also describes all of the new features in Release 1.2 of Motif. If you are familiar with Motif 1.1 but need
to get up to speed with Motif 1.2, you should read Section #smotif12. In this section, we summarize the new features
and tell you ...
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