Volume 4: X Toolkit Intrinsics Programming Manual: Standard Edition (DEFINITIVE GUIDES TO THE X WINDOW SYSTEM) - Softcover

Nye, Adrian; O'Reilly, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565920031 ISBN 13: 9781565920033

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 1992

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Adrian Nye is the author or editor of several volumes in the X Window System Series from O'Reilly & Associates. Adrian has worked as a programmer writing educational software in C and as a mechanical engineer designing offshore oil spill cleanup equipment. He has interests in the environment and the impact of people and technology. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984 with a B.S. in mechanical engineering.

Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O'Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. Tim is an activist for open source and open standards, and an opponent of software patents and other incursions of new intellectual property laws into the public domain. Tim's long-term vision for his company is to change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators. For everything Tim, see tim.oreilly.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565920031
• ISBN 13: 9781565920033
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 567