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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
Release 1.2 of the Motif toolkit introduces a number of new features, as well as many enhancements to existing
functionality. This section summarizes all of the changes in Motif 1.2 and refers you to other sections in the book for
more detailed information on specific changes. We also describe the changes that we made to the example programs
in the book to make them accurate with respect to Motif 1.2.
4.5.1 General Toolkit Changes
Many of the changes in Motif 1.2 affect the functionality of the toolkit as whole, rather than individual widget classes.
This release demonstrates performance improvements, as the code has been reorganized to improve locality and
dynamic memory usage has been reduced. The toolkit also benefits from the improved performance of the X11R5
translation manager. Motif 1.2 provides a new header file, <Xm/XmAll.h>, that includes all of the public header files
for the toolkit. The <Xm/ExtObject.h>, <Xm/Traversal.h>, <Xm/VaSimple.h>, and <Xm/VendorE.h> header files that
are present in Motif 1.1 are obsolete in Motif 1.2. The addition of internationalization capabilities is one of the major
enhancements provided by Motif 1.2. An internationalized application can run in different language environments
without any modification. Most of the support for developing internationalized applications in Motif is based on
features provided by X11R5. Xlib provides support for internationalized text output, interclient communication, and
localization of the resource database, while Xt ...
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