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Volume 7B: XView Reference Manual
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Volume 7B: XView Reference Manual

by Dan Heller
September 1991
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
311 pages
7h 17m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from Volume 7B: XView Reference Manual
Preface
This manual describes the XView attributes, callbacks, procedures, macros, data structures,
as well as additional reference material. XView (X Window-System-based Visual/Integrated
Environment for Workstations) is a user-interface toolkit to support interactive, graphics-
based applications running under the X Window System. This toolkit, developed by Sun
Microsystems, Inc., is derived from earlier toolkits for the SunView windowing system.
With over 2000 SunView applications in the workstation market, there are many program-
mers already familiar with SunView application programmer’s interface (API).
XView is based upon Xlib, the lowest level of the X Window System available to the pro-
grammer. While developing XView user interfaces does not require Xlib programming expe-
rience, there are good reasons for learning more about Xlib, especially if your application
renders graphics.
How to Use This Manual
The XView Reference Manual includes reference material for each of the XView attributes
and procedures, information about XView resources, and data structures. Within each sec-
tion, reference pages are organized alphabetically.
This book is designed to be used with the XView Programming Manual. The XView Pro-
gramming Manual provides an explanation of XView, including tutorial material and numer-
ous programming examples. To get the most out of the XView Programming Manual, you
will need ...
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ISBN: 9780937175880