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X Toolkit Intrinsics Programming Manual: Standard Ed., 4th Ed. (Definitive Guides to the X Window System) by Adrian Nye, Tim O'Reilly, Price Stern Sloan Publishing is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is X Toolkit Intrinsics Programming Manual: Standard Ed., 4th Ed. (Definitive Guides to the X Window System) about?

Volume 4 is a complete guide to programming with the X Toolkit (Xt), the library of C language routines that facilitates the design of user interfaces with reusable components called widgets. This book uses Athena widgets to demonstrate how to use existing widgets, while still providing a good introduction to programming with any widget set based on Xt, such as OSF/Motif or AT&T's OPEN LOOK widget set. 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 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 Toolkit programming techniques.• Comparison of Athena, OSF/Motif, and AT&T OPEN LOOK widgets.This book is designed to

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Author
Adrian Nye, Tim O'Reilly, Price Stern Sloan Publishing
Publisher
O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Published
1990
Language
EN
ISBN
9781565920033
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Computer Science, Programming, Reference

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