Practical Guide to X Window Programming - Developing Applications With the Xt Intrinsics and Osf/motif

List of contents

Quick Xt Reference Guide (X11R4)

About the author

Keller, Brian J.

Summary

A Practical Guide to X Window Programming is a basic guide that takes readers step by step through developing applications using X-Windows. The book covers the Xt Intrinsics portion of the X-Window system in detail and discusses the MIT Athena and OSF/Motif Widget Sets that are used in many of the examples. Topics covered include C programming fundamentals, text handling using X, fonts, event handling in Xt, extending the Widget Sets (building on Field Editor Widget), designing and constructing an application, building menus, printing help, OSF/Motif (including the window arranger) and interclient communication. Three extensive appendices are included: Widgets, Classing, and Exported Functions; Quick Xt Reference Guide (X11R4); and Quick Guide to OSF/Motif Widgets. Any applications designer interested in developing applications with Xt will find this book a valuable and enlightening resource.

Product details

• Authors: Keller, Brian J. Keller
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781315890302
• ISBN: 978-1-315-89030-2
• No. of pages: 363
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Programming languages; Programming & scripting languages: general, Programming and scripting languages: general, COMPUTERS / Languages / General