Motif Programming Manual, Vol 6a

by David Brennan and Paula Ferguson

Book Overview

The "Motif Programming Manual" is a source for complete, accurate, and insightful guidance on Motif application programming. There is no other book that covers the ground as thoroughly or as well as... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565920163
• ISBN13: 9781565920163
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 1014 Pages
• Weight: 3.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Yup, this is it...

This book explains most everything you need to know about Motif. The manual pages will cover the rest. The book is self-contained, and unless you are really interested in low-level details, there is little reason to purchase the Xlib and Xt books. Motif is mostly self-contained, and the few Xt and Xlib-calls you need to make is described in this manual (and they also have manpages). Of course, if you are writing a new application today, you might be wiser and go with a modern toolkit like GTK or Qt, but for the maintenance programmer (aren't we all?), this book still has lots of value.

Excellent and throrough guide to Motif

I received this book for Christmas last year (nothing like O'Reilly in your stocking to make for a good Christmas!) and didn't get a chance to start it until a few weeks ago. I am now about halfway through and I must say that this is an excellent book! It is well-written, interesting, and thorough. The example programs are all extremely helpful assisting the reader in understanding the subject matter. Now that Motif has become open sourced, I urge all Linux and UNIX developers to pick up a copy of this book and give Motif programming a try!