Volume 4 is a complete guide to programming with the X Toolkit Intrinsics, the library of C language routines that facilitates the design of user interfaces with reusable components called widgets. It provides concepts and examples that show how to use the various X Toolkit routines. The first few chapters are devoted to using widgets; the remainder of the book covers the more complex task of writing new widgets.
Volume 4 is available in two editions. The Standard Edition uses Athena widgets in examples for X11 Release 5 to demonstrate how to use existing widgets, while still providing a good introduction to programming with any widget set based on Xt.
Volume 4 includes:
* Introduction to the X Window System.
* Building applications with widgets.
* Constructing a bitmap editor with widgets.
* An overview of each widget in the widget set.
* Basic widget methods.
* Events, translations, and accelerators.
* Event handlers, timeouts, and work procedures.
* Resource management and type conversion.
* Selections and window manager interaction.
* Geometry management.
* Menus, gadgets, and cascaded pop-ups.
* Miscellaneous techniques.
* Comparison of Athena, OSF/Motif, and AT&T OPEN LOOK widgets.
This book is designed to be used with Volume 5, X Toolkit Intrinsics Reference Manual, which provides reference pages for each of the Xt functions, the widget classes defined by Xt, and the Athena widget set.
Volume 4 is available in two editions. The Standard Edition uses Athena widgets in examples for X11 Release 5 to demonstrate how to use existing widgets, while still providing a good introduction to programming with any widget set based on Xt.
Volume 4 includes:
* Introduction to the X Window System.
* Building applications with widgets.
* Constructing a bitmap editor with widgets.
* An overview of each widget in the widget set.
* Basic widget methods.
* Events, translations, and accelerators.
* Event handlers, timeouts, and work procedures.
* Resource management and type conversion.
* Selections and window manager interaction.
* Geometry management.
* Menus, gadgets, and cascaded pop-ups.
* Miscellaneous techniques.
* Comparison of Athena, OSF/Motif, and AT&T OPEN LOOK widgets.
This book is designed to be used with Volume 5, X Toolkit Intrinsics Reference Manual, which provides reference pages for each of the Xt functions, the widget classes defined by Xt, and the Athena widget set.