Motif Programming Manual, Vol 6a (Definitive Guides to the X Window System)
David Brennan,Dan Heller,Paula Ferguson | 1993-09-01 00:00:00 | O'Reilly Media | 1014 | CAD
The Motif Programming Manual is a source for complete, accurate, and insightful guidance on Motif application programming. There is no other book that covers the ground as thoroughly or as well as this one. The Motif Programming Manual describes how to write applications using the Motif toolkit from the Open Software Foundation (OSF). The book goes into detail on every Motif widget class, with useful examples that will help programmers to develop their own code. Anyone doing Motif programming who doesn't want to have to figure it out on their own needs this book. In addition to information on Motif, the book is full of tips about programming in general and about user interface design. It includes a tutorial on UIL; coverage of drag-and-drop, tear-off menus, and internationalization as implemented in the Motif widgets such as Text and TextField; plus the entire book has been checked for accuracy with Motif 1.2 (while remaining usable with Motif 1.1). Complements Volume 6B, Motif Reference Manual.
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This book explains most everything you need to know about Motif. The manual pages will cover the rest. The book is self-contained, and unless you are really interested in low-level details, there is little reason to purchase the Xlib and Xt books. Motif is mostly self-contained, and the few Xt and Xlib-calls you need to make is described in this manual (and they also have manpages).
Of course, if you are writing a new application today, you might be wiser and go with a modern toolkit like GTK or Qt, but for the maintenance programmer (aren't we all?), this book still has lots of value.
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I received this book for Christmas last year (nothing like O'Reilly in your stocking to make for a good Christmas!) and didn't get a chance to start it until a few weeks ago. I am now about halfway through and I must say that this is an excellent book! It is well-written, interesting, and thorough. The example programs are all extremely helpful assisting the reader in understanding the subject matter. Now that Motif has become open sourced, I urge all Linux and UNIX developers to pick up a copy of this book and give Motif programming a try!
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