Cde and Motif a Practical Primer

By Antonino Mione

Book Overview

Motif is the dominant language used in developing applications for the X Window System. This work aims to distill Motif's complexity into just the concepts, toolkits, widgets and XLib routines... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Textbook Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0137608284
• ISBN13: 9780137608287
• Release Date: January 1797
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Quick way of learning Motif

The print is large, the pages of soft, and it's a great way to quickly learn about the most commonly used aspects of the Motif widget set. It's quick reading and the book lays out the information very systematically. However, before reading this book I thoroughly went through the first hundred pages of The Definitive Guides to the X Window System: Volume Four - X Toolkit Intrinsics Programming Manual Motif Edition. This book goes through each concept thoroughly (and agonisingly). However, it did give me a very solid foundation to build on. You should already have a basic understanding of GUI development and X before reading this book.

Primer Revisited

If you already know how to compile and link in a UNIX environment, this book will be an excellent place to start to learn Motif and CDE. If not, you may find some things a little confusing. The author assumes you already know some of the basics and so doesn't waste your time with review, but instead plunges right into the topic. I found this book helpful, but only after learning how to compile and link in UNIX.