CDE Documentation

The Common Desktop Environment documentation set contains documents that will help you in your transition to Solaris CDE. These books will be published soon by Addison-Wesley.

Development Environment

• Common Desktop Environment: Programmer's Overview
• Common Desktop Environment: Style Guide and Certification Checklist
• Common Desktop Environment: Application Builder User's Guide
• Common Desktop Environment: Programmer's Guide
• Common Desktop Environment: Help System Author's and Programmer's Guide
• Common Desktop Environment: ToolTalk Messaging Overview
• Common Desktop Environment: Internationalization Programmer's Guide
• Common Desktop Environment: Desktop KornShell User's Guide
• Common Desktop Environment: Product Glossary

Online man pages are available for all development environment components.

Run-time Environment

• Common Desktop Environment: User's Guide
• Common Desktop Environment: Advanced User's and System Administrator's Guide

Online help volumes are available for most of the run-time environment components.

ToolTalk Documentation

• The ToolTalk Service: An Inter-Operability Solution, published by SunSoft Press and PTR Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632, ISBN 0-13-088717-X
• ToolTalk and Open Protocols: Inter-Application Communication, by Astrid Julienne and Brian Holtz, published by SunSoft Press and PTR Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632, ISBN 013-031055-7

The Solaris 2.5 Software Developer AnswerBook set contains:

• ToolTalk Reference Manual
• ToolTalk User's Guide

Motif 1.2.3 Documentation

The documentation listed in this section describes Motif 1.2 interfaces. Motif 1.2.3 is a patch release of 1.2 and the same specifications apply. You can purchase these books at your local bookstore.

• 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.

• Motif 1.2 User's Guide 801-5363-10

  This user's guide 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.

• Motif 1.2 Programmer's Reference Manual 801-5364-10

  This programmer's reference manual provides reference information for the Motif commands and functions in UNIX-style manual pages. The reference information covers the toolkit (library functions, widget documentation, and resources), the window manager, UI language commands, and the library functions.

• Motif 1.2 Programmer's Guide 801-5365-10

  This programmer's guide 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. It is useful for new Motif programmers. A number of the example programs from this volume is available in source form in the share/src directory.

• Motif 1.2 Style Guide 801-5366-10

  This style guide provides a description of the framework of behavior specifications (the Motif appearance) to guide developers in the design and implementation of products with Motif-style UI. 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.

OPEN LOOK to CDE Motif 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.

OSF/Motif Programmer's Guide, Revision 1.2, Open Software Foundation, Prentice Hall, 1993.

OSF/Motif Programmer's Reference, Revision 1.2, Open Software Foundation, Prentice Hall, 1993.

OSF/Motif Style Guide, Revision 1.2, Open Software Foundation, Prentice Hall, 1993.

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 Window System Toolkit, Paul J. Asente and Ralph R. Swick, Digital Press, 1990.

X Window System, X Version 11 Release 5, Third Edition, Digital Press, 1992.

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.