Contents

• Contents
• Introduction to X/Motif Programming
  • Why Learn X Window and Motif?
  • How to use this book
    • About this book
    • Conventions used
  • Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)
    • Why Use GUIs?
    • Designing GUIs
  • History of X/Motif
    • Communication before X
    • The Motif/Open Look War
    • Versions of Motif
  • Culture
    • Operating Systems
    • The Common Desktop Environment (CDE)
    • C/C++ programming
  • Religion
    • OSF, X Consortium, Open Group
    • Motif and COSE
    • Motif Style Guide
• The X Window System Environment
  • What is the X Window system?
    • X Window Principles
  • The Window Manager
• The X Window Programming Model
  • X System Concepts and Definitions
    • Clients and Servers
  • The X Programming Model
    • Xlib
    • Xt Intrinsics
    • The Motif Toolkit
  • Currency
    • Widget Classes and Hierarchies
    • Motif Style -- GUI Design
• A First Motif Program
  • What will our program do?
  • What will we learn from this program?
  • The push.c program
  • Calling Motif, Xt and Xlib functions
    • Header Files
  • Compiling Motif Programs
  • Basic Motif Programming Principles
    • Initialising the toolkit
    • Widget Creation
  • Managing Widgets
  • Events and Callback Functions
    • Principles of Event Handling
    • Translation tables
    • Adding callbacks
    • Declaring callback functions
  • Finishing off -- displaying widgets and event loops
  • Exercises
• Widget Basics
  • Widget Classes
    • Shell Widgets
    • Constraint Widgets
    • Construction widgets
  • Primitive Widgets
  • Gadgets
  • Manager Widgets
    • Motif 2.0 Widgets
  • Widget Resources
  • Strings in Motif
  • Exercises
• Widget Resources
  • Overriding Resource Defaults
  • User Resource (.Xdefaults) File
  • Class Resource File
  • Command Line Parameters
  • The Resource Manager Database
  • Hard-coding Resources Within a Program
    • Dynamic control of resources
    • Setting resources at creation
  • Fallback Resources
  • Exercises
• Combining Widgets
  • Arranging and Positioning Widgets
  • The RowColumn Widget
  • Forms
    • Simple Attachment --form1.c
    • Attach positions -- form2.c
    • Opposite attachment -- form3.c
    • A more complete form program -- arrows.c
  • Exercises
• The MainWindow Widget and Menus
  • The MainWindow widget
  • The MenuBar
    • A simple MenuBar
    • PullDown Menus
    • Tear-off menus
  • Other MainWindow children
  • Exercises
• Dialog Widgets
  • What are Dialogs?
  • Basic Dialog Management
  • The WarningDialog
  • The InformationDialog Widget
  • The dialog1.c program
  • Error, Working and Question Dialogs
  • Unwanted Dialog Buttons
  • The PromptDialog Widget
    • The prompt.c program
  • Selection and FileSelection Dialogs
    • The file_select.c program
  • User Defined Dialogs
  • Exercises
• Text Widgets
  • Text Widget Creation
  • Putting text into a Text Widget
  • Example Text Program - text.c
  • Editing Text
  • Scrolling Control
  • Text Callbacks
  • Editing and Scrolling in Practice
  • Exercises
• List Widgets
  • List basics
    • List selection modes
    • Adding and removing list items
  • Selecting and Deselecting items
    • List Enquiry
  • List Callbacks
  • The list.c program
  • Exercises
• The Scale Widget
  • Scale basics
  • Scale Callbacks
  • The scale.c program
  • Scale Style
    • Motif 1.2 Style
    • The Motif 2.0 Style
• ScrolledWindow and ScrollBar Widgets
  • ScrolledWindow Widgets
  • ScrollBar Widgets
• Toggle Widgets
  • Toggle Basics
  • Toggle Callbacks
  • The toggle.c program
  • Grouping Toggles
• Xlib and Motif
  • Xlib Basics
  • Graphics Contexts
  • Two Dimensional Graphics
  • Pixmaps
  • Fonts
  • XEvents
    • XEvent Types
    • Writing Your Own Event Handler
  • Exercises
• The DrawingArea Widget
  • Creating a DrawingArea Widget
  • DrawingArea Resources and Callbacks
  • Using DrawingAreas in Practice
    • Basic Drawing -- draw.c
    • draw_input1.c -- Input to a DrawingArea
    • Drawing to a pixmap -- draw_input2.c
  • Exercises
• Colour
  • Why is colour so complex?
  • Colour Basics
  • Displaying Colour
    • Colourmaps
  • Colour in X/Motif
    • Colour Database
    • Explicit Colour Coding
    • The Colour.c program
  • Exercises
• Motif Style
  • The Motif Style Guide
  • Menu Style
  • Dialog Widgets
  • Drag and Drop
  • Interaction
  • International Markets

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