Motif 1.2.3 Documentation

The following documents and books listed are not included on the CD. Check your local computer bookstores for their availability. In addition to this guide, the following documents support other Motif 1.2.3 documentation:

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Note - The documentation describes Motif 1.2 interfaces. Motif 1.2.3 is a patch release of 1.2 and the same specifications apply.

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• OSF Application Environment Specification (AES) User Environment Volume, Revision C, PTR Prentice Hall, 1993.

  Describes the Motif Application Environment Specification. Information on these specifications can also be found in the Motif 1.2 Programmer's Reference Manual.

• OSF/Motif User's Guide, Revision 1.2, PTR Prentice Hall, 1993.

  Describes how to interact with Motif-based applications, including how to use and customize the Motif Window Manager, how to use the Motif widgets, and how to customize your interaction with Motif applications.

• OSF/Motif Programmer's Guide, Revision 1.2, PTR Prentice Hall, 1993.

  Describes how to use the Motif API to create Motif applications. Also describes the architecture of the Motif widget set and the features of the toolkit. This guide is useful for new Motif programmers.

• OSF/Motif Programmer's Reference, Revision 1.2, PTR Prentice Hall, 1993.

  Provides reference information for the Motif commands and functions in UNIX style man pages. The reference information covers the toolkit (library functions, widget documentation and resources), the window manager, user interface language commands, and the library functions.

• OSF/Motif Style Guide, PTR Prentice Hall, 1993.

  A description of the framework of behavior specifications (the Motif feel) to guide developers in the design and implementation of products with Motif style user interface. The guide is split into sections applicable to four audiences (application designers, widget designers, user interface system designers, and window manager designers) The appendixes describe how the Motif widgets correspond to the components in the guide, and provide a checklist of requirements for OSF/Motif Application-level certification.

Related References

OPEN LOOK to Motif 1.2.3 Transition

Starks, Cindy. A Developer's Look at the COSE Desktop. UNIX Review. March 1994; 12(3) 41-45.

Bryant, David, J. Fowler, R. Levine. From OpenWindows to CDE. UNIX Review. March, 1994; 12(3) 47-51.

Moore, Michael. The CDE Libraries. UNIX Review. March 1994; 12(3) 53-57.

Keefe, Sarah. Migrating Your Sun Workstation To Motif. The X Journal, July-August 1993.

Graphical User Interfaces

OPEN LOOK to Motif GUI Transition Guide 801,6567-10, SunSoft, October, 1993.

OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface: Programmer's Guide, UNIX System Laboratories, 1992.

OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface: User's Guide, UNIX System Laboratories, 1992.

OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface Application Style Guidelines, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1990.

OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface Functional Specification, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1990.

OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface: Programmer's Reference Manual, Prentice Hall, 1992.

OPEN LOOK Intrinsics Toolkit Widget Set Programmer's Guide, AT&T, 1990.

OPEN LOOK Intrinsics Toolkit Widget Set Reference Manual, AT&T, 1990.

OLIT & Motif: A Technical Comparison, Amy Moore, M. Goyal, SunSoft, September, 1992.

Motif Programming

Motif Programming in the X Window System Environment, William A. Parrette, McGraw-Hill, 1993.

Motif Programming: The Essentials--and More, Marshall Brain, Digital Press, 1992.

Motif Programming Manual, Dan Heller, O'Reilly & Associates, 1992.

Motif Reference Manual, Paula Ferguson, O'Reilly & Associates, 1992.

The X Window System Programming and Applications with Xt, OSF/Motif Edition, Douglas Young, Prentice Hall, 1990.

OPEN LOOK Programming

An OPEN LOOK at Unix: A Developer's Guide to X. John David Miller, M&T Books, 1990.

The X Window System Programming and Applications with Xt, OPEN LOOK Edition, Douglas Young and John A. Pew, Prentice Hall, 1992.

XView Programming Manual, Dan Heller, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1991.

XView Reference Manual, Thomas Van Raalte (ed.), O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1991.

Xt/XLib Programming

Programmer's Supplement for Release 5 of the X Window System, Version 11, David Flanagan, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1991.

X Toolkit Intrinsics Programming Manual, Adrian Nye and Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1990.

X Toolkit Intrinsics Reference Manual, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1991.

Xlib: C Language X Interface, James Gettys, Robert W. Scheifler, Ron Newman, Silicon Press, 1989.

Xlib Programming Manual, Adrian Nye, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1990.

Xlib Reference Manual, Adrian Nye (ed.), O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1990.