Common Desktop Environment Motif Widgets

Common Desktop Environment Motif provides two types of widgets that are not available in Motif 1.2.3:

• MenuButton--A menu that doesn't need to be in a row column widget. This was added primarily to help you port applications from a Microsoft Windows or OPEN LOOK environment.

• Terminal Emulator widget--Useful for applications designed to mix the best of a command-line user interface with a GUI

• Editor widget--Available for embedding a more full-featured plain text editor than that available from the Motif Text widget

• Help widgets--Handle navigation and interaction with application help volumes

Help is delivered with an application in the form of Semantic Description Language (SDL) files that have been compiled from HelpTag, a form of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) files. The Help system features mixed text and graphics, hyperlinks, dynamic reformatting of text, and structured navigation capabilities.