Programming with Motif™

Keith D. Gregory

Springer Science & Business Media, Oct 8, 1992 - Computers - 664 pages

About this Book This book is a detailed introduction to programming with the OSF /MotifI'M graphical user interface. It is an introduction in that it does not require the reader to have experience programming in the X Window environment. It is detailed in that it teaches you how to use the interface components provided by Motif in a complex application. Although it contains a great deal of reference material, it is not meant as an authoritative reference - that is the job of the OSF/Motif Programmer's Reference, which uses over 900 pages in the process. Instead, this book provides its reference material in a practical, "how to" manner and allows the reader to use the Programmer's Reference effectively. The target reader is an experienced C programmer and user of the X Window System under the UNIX operating system. 'the reader should be familiar with the tools provided by UNIX for the compilation and testing of programs; while this book does examine the process by which a Motif program is compiled, it does not explain that process. It also assumes that the reader is familiar with "x" terms such as 'pointer' and 'display'.

Contents

• An Introduction To Motif Mechanism not Policy: 1
• Enter Motif: 2
• The Layers of X: 3
• The Widget What Is a Widget?: 5
• Widgets as Objects: 7
• Widget Instance Tree: 10
• Widget Resources What Are Resources?: 11
• Resource Tables: 12
• A Short Note on Resource Naming Conventions: 13
• Format of a Resource Specification: 16
• Sample Resource File: 17
• Setting Resources by Class: 19
• The Resource not Set: 20
• How Many Resource Files Could One Program Use?: 21
• Setting Resources from the Command Line: 22
• Setting Resources Programmatically: 23
• HardWiring Resource Values: 25
• Writing A Motif Program The Widget Data Type: 27
• A Program Template: 32
• Header Files: 33
• Compilation of a Motif Program: 35
• A Short Note About Program Size: 36
• What About Standard IO?: 37
• XmLabel Overview: 39
• XmLabel Resources: 40
• Hello World: 42
• Setting a Labels Font: 44
• The XmString Data Type: 48
• Setting labelString Programmatically: 51
• Using XmLabel with Pictures: 53
• Managers Overview: 57
• An Overview: 58
• Management Revisited: 59
• The unitType Resource: 62
• XmBulletinBoard: 65
• XmBulletinBoard Examples: 68
• XmRowColumn: 73
• XmRowColumn Examples: 80
• XmPanedWindow: 87
• Three Labels and a Paned Window: 91
• XmForm: 92
• XmForm Examples: 101
• Buttons Overview: 107
• Inheritance: 108
• Press Here: 112
• XmArrowButton: 114
• XmArrowButton Example: 115
• XmToggleButton: 117
• XmToggleButton Examples: 122
• Events and Callbacks Overview: 125
• Handling X Events: 127
• Mouse Tracker: 135
• Callbacks: 142
• Button Callbacks: 145
• Press Here: 146
• Actions: 148
• Translations: 151
• Multibutton Pushbutton: 159
• XmPushButton Default Translations: 162
• Keyboard Input Overview: 165
• Keyboard Events: 166
• Traversal: 167
• Three Tab Groups: 169
• XmText: 172
• XmText Resources: 173
• XmText Callbacks: 179
• XmText Default Translations: 182
• XmText Convenience Functions: 185
• Memo Pad: 190
• Entry Fields: 192
• Scrolled Text: 197
• Creating a Scrolled Text Widget: 198
• Scrolled Text Resources: 199
• File Browser: 200
• Scrollbars Overview: 205
• XmScrolledWindow: 207
• XmScrolledWindow Resources: 208
• Creating and Initializing a Scrolled Window: 211
• Scrolling RowColumn: 212
• XmScrollBar: 215
• XmScrollBar Resources: 216
• XmScrollBar Callbacks: 219
• Getting and Setting a Scrollbars Values Programmatically: 221
• XmScale: 224
• XmScale Resources: 225
• XmScale Callbacks: 228
• XmScale Example: 229
• The Motif Look Overview: 233
• XmMainWindow: 235
• XmMainWindow Convenience Functions: 237
• XmSeparator: 238
• XmSeparator Resources: 239
• XmSeparator Example: 241
• XmFrame: 243
• XmFrame Resources: 244
• Labels in Frames: 246
• The New Standard Program Template: 248
• A Sample Application: 254
• Menus Overview: 261
• XmCascadeButton Resources: 262
• XmCascadeButton Callbacks: 263
• XmRowColumn Menu Resources: 264
• XmRowColumn Callbacks: 266
• The Menu Bar: 267
• The Standard Motif Menu Bar: 269
• Adding a Menu Bar to the Editor: 272
• XmMenuShell and a Menu Panes Instance Tree: 276
• Adding PullDown Menus to the Editor: 278
• Mnemonics: 282
• Menu Accelerators: 285
• Cascading PullDowns: 287
• Cascading PullDown Example: 288
• PopUp Menus: 289
• Color Selection Menu: 290
• Option Menus: 294
• XmRowColumn Resources Specific to Option Menus: 295
• Font Family and Size: 297
• Menu Summary: 300
• Dialogs Overview: 305
• Dialog Design and Components: 306
• XmDialogShell: 307
• XmDialogShell Resources: 308
• Dialog Management and Unmanagement: 310
• Building and Using a Dialog: 313
• Find: 314
• Message Boxes: 325
• XmMessageBox: 327
• XmMessageBox Resources: 328
• XmMessageBox Convenience Functions: 330
• Cant Find Alert: 331
• Grabbing and Assigning Input Focus: 334
• Lists Overview: 337
• XmList Resources: 339
• XmList Callbacks: 342
• XmList Convenience Functions: 344
• EMail Address Selection: 347
• Scrolled List: 351
• Scrolled List Resources: 352
• Scrolling EMail Addresses: 353
• XmSelectionBox: 354
• XmSelectionBox Resources: 355
• XmSelectionBox Callbacks: 359
• Creating and Using a Selection Box: 360
• EMail Addresses: 361
• XmFileSelectionBox: 363
• XmFileSelectionBox Resources: 365
• Creating And Using XmFileSelectionBox: 366
• OpenSave As: 368
• XmCommand: 379
• XmCommand Resources: 380
• XmCommand Convenience Functions: 382
• XmCommand Example: 384
• Using Xlib With Motif Overview: 387
• Color in a Digital World: 389
• The Standard Xlib Parameters: 391
• The Graphics Context: 393
• XmDrawingArea: 401
• XmDrawingArea Resources: 402
• XmDrawingArea Callbacks: 403
• Doodle: 406
• Resources Revisited Overview: 427
• CommandLine Options: 432
• Resource Converters: 436
• Writing a Converter: 444
• Quarks: 452
• Using Converters Outside the Resource Manager: 455
• The Conversion Cache: 459
• Application Resources: 460
• Interclient Communication Overview: 467
• Timeouts: 474
• WorkProcs: 478
• Sending Events Between Clients: 482
• Atoms: 485
• Window Properties: 487
• Window Manager Protocols: 493
• Selection: 502
• The Clipboard: 513
• Adding Cut Copy and Paste to the Text Editor: 521
• XmText Direct Clipboard Interface: 530
• ISO Latin 1 Character Set: 533
• Widget Class Summary Overview: 535
• Composite: 536
• Core: 537
• OuerrideShell: 538
• TopLevelShell: 539
• WMShell: 540
• XmArrowButton: 541
• XmBulletinBoard: 542
• XmCascadeButton: 543
• XmDialogShell: 544
• XmDrawnButton: 545
• XmForm: 546
• XmFrame: 547
• XmList: 548
• XmMain Window: 549
• XmMenuShell: 550
• XmPanedWindow: 551
• XmPrimitiue: 552
• XmPushButton: 553
• XmRowColumn: 554
• XmScale: 555
• XmScrollBar: 556
• XmScrolledWindow: 557
• XmSelectionBox: 558
• XmSeparator: 559
• XmText: 560
• XmToggleButton: 561
• X Event Reference Overview: 563
• Event Masks: 565
• XEvent: 567
• XAnyEvent: 570
• ButtonPress ButtonRelease: 571
• CirculateNotify: 573
• CirculateRequest: 574
• ClientMessage: 575
• ColormapNotify: 577
• ConfigureNotify: 578
• ConfigureRequest: 580
• CreateNotify: 583
• DestroyNotify: 584
• EnterNotify LeaveNotify: 585
• Expose: 588
• Focusln FocusOut: 589
• GraphicsExpose NoExpose: 592
• GravityNotify: 594
• KeymapNotify: 595
• KeyPress KeyRelease: 596
• MapNotify UnmapNotify: 598
• MappingNotify: 600
• MapRequest: 601
• MotionNotify: 602
• PropertyNotify: 605
• ReparentNotify: 606
• ResizeRequest: 607
• SelectionClear: 608
• SelectionNotify: 609
• SelectionRequest: 611
• VisibilityNotify: 613
• Changes In X And Motif Overview: 615
• From XI1 Release 3 to Release 4: 618
• From XI1 Release 4 to Release 5: 622
• Where To Go For More Information Overview: 625
• Mailing ListsNetNews: 627
• The FAQs: 628
• Getting this Books Sample Programs: 629
• Glossary: 631
• Index: 655

Bibliographic information

• Title: Programming with Motif™
• Author: Keith D. Gregory
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media, 1992
• ISBN: 0387978771, 9780387978772
• Length: 664 pages
• Subjects: Computers / Languages / General; Computers / Operating Systems / General; Computers / Operating Systems / UNIX; Computers / Programming / Compilers; Computers / Software Development & Engineering / General