Mastering OSF/Motif(TM) Widgets (2nd Edition) [Paperback]

Donald L. McMinds (Author)

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A little more than 14 years ago a computer system for home or office consisted of a small machine with 32KB of memory and a floppy disk drive. If you were really into it, you had 64KB and two disk drives. There was virtually no application software available off the shelf and you wrote what you needed, usually in BASIC.

The world of computers has come a long, long way. Now we have desktop workstations with many megabytes of memory, hard-disk drives in the 300MB range, and sophisticated windowing and user interface systems. Also, these workstations can be linked to each other through networking systems.

One of the most innovative developments in software technology is the X Window System, more commonly referred to as X. It was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by personnel from MIT and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). It has been released in several versions, the most recent being Release 5 of Version 11 (X11R5). It is widely recognized as a standard for network-based windowing systems and is supported by a consortium of well-known, highly respected companies such as AT&T, DEC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Sun Microsystems.

Motif, a product of the Open Software Foundation (OSF), is a graphical user interface built on X. OSF is a non-profit organization founded in 1988 by a group of companies (including DEC, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM) whose objective was, and is, to develop a standard user-interface environment. Motif uses a set of components of Motif and X allows you to create graphical interface. The combination of Motif and X allows you to create graphical interface applications capable of running on practically any vendor's workstation.

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An appendix detailing the difference between Release 1.1 and Release 1.2 will ease your transition to OSF/Motif Release 1.2.

Don McMinds walks you through a wide variety of examples and provides more than 45 helpful programs so you can immediately put to use what you have learned. Every chapter explains in detail one or more short programs that show you how to best use each of the OSF/Motif widgets. Special emphasis is placed on widget resources and the effect they have on the appearance and behavior of widgets.

Ideal for OSF/Motif novices that have some C programming and X Window System experience, this how-to book offers the only thorough treatment of Release 1.2 widget programming. Well-illustrated and organized to save you time and effort, it will help you to quickly master the techniques of implementing or programming your interface designs.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 731 pages
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company; 2 Sub edition (September 30, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201633353
• ISBN-13: 978-0201633351
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,894,972 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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