Motif book

Motif book

Post by Alexander San » Sat, 06 Apr 1996 04:00:00



Hi !

I'am searching a _good_ book to learn programming under Motif 2.0.

Any recommendations ?

Thanx in advance.

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A. Sanda
Vienna, Austria                              

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Motif book

Post by Ken L » Sat, 06 Apr 1996 04:00:00



writes:
|> I'am searching a _good_ book to learn programming under Motif 2.0.

I'm not aware of any books specifically about Motif 2.0,
other than the OSF manuals that come with Motif.

The third-party books I've seen only cover Motif 1.2.

--
Ken Lee, X/Motif Consulting, http://www.rahul.net/kenton/index.html

 
 
 

1. Motif book - case study

Yaged 0.1 release note

Yaged (Yet Another Graphics EDitor) is an X/Motif based TIFF pixmap
editor. It has been developed:

    partly as an example of how usability design notations
    can be used as the basis of software implementation.

    partly as a TIFF pixmap image editor.

    partly to provide an environment where students can
    develop additional tools.

    partly to provide an environment where students can
    develop additional image processing filters.

The editor features:

    a floating toolbox containing pointer, pencil, line,
    rectangle, circle, text and magnification tools.

    floating dialogs for line width, line style and fill
    style selection.

    a full file menu: new, open, save, save as, exit

    a full edit menu: (limited) undo/redo, cut/copy/paste,
    select all/none.

    a view menu: clear, redraw, filters: flip horizontal/
    vertical, invert colours.

    an option menu containing controls for the floating
    menus and for a colour selection dialog.

    a help menu containing a version dialog and soon a
    help system.

Yaged requires

    Motif 1.1 (or later)
    X11 R5 (or later)
    the libtiff library

Yaged includes

    the full source code

    a make file (but no imakefile yet)

    a design rationale, including sections on how to build and
    integrate additional tools and filters. This documentation
    is provided in MS word and ascii text format, with the
    diagrams in Corel draw and tiff formats.

Yaged is available from:

    ftp.sbu.ac.uk   in   /pub/MotifStuff/yaged

Yaged is provided by:

    Fintan Culwin
    South Bank University : London


    (Any comments should be addressed to this address.)

-- pragma flame off

Yaged was developed as a case study for

    'An X/Motif programmer's primer'
    Prentice Hall (UK) April 1994
    ISBN 0-13-101841-8

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