Programming with Motif(tm)

By Keith D. Gregory

About this Book This book is a detailed introduction to programming with the OSF /MotifI'M graphical user interface. It is an introduction in that it does not require the reader to have experience programming in the X Window environment. It is detailed in that it teaches you how to use the interface components provided by Motif in a complex application. Although it contains a great deal of reference material, it is not meant as an authoritative reference - that is the job of the OSF/Motif Programmer's Reference, which uses over 900 pages in the process. Instead, this book provides its reference material in a practical, "how to" manner and allows the reader to use the Programmer's Reference effectively. The target reader is an experienced C programmer and user of the X Window System under the UNIX operating system. 'the reader should be familiar with the tools provided by UNIX for the compilation and testing of programs; while this book does examine the process by which a Motif program is compiled, it does not explain that process. It also assumes that the reader is familiar with "x" terms such as 'pointer' and 'display'.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387978771
• ISBN13: 9780387978772
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 664 Pages
• Weight: 2.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.7" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Probaly the Best Book on Motif

This book is both a reference and a good instructional overview on how to program Motif. Essentially, Motif is a collection of widgets that one can program. The book references these widgets, shows screen shots, shows where in the tree the widget is derived from, details little code snippets, and has comprehensive explanations on how to use it, return values, etc. Now, these modern times, one would probaly want to program with Qt (KDE) or GTK, but there's tons of historical code out there that's still being used these days, that will undoubtedly require some Motif knowledge, and I would say this book is a great resource for that.