How This Book Is Organized

This book is organized as follows:

Chapter 1, Introducing the ToolTalk Service describes how the ToolTalk service works and how it uses information that your application supplies to deliver messages; how applications use the ToolTalk service; and application and ToolTalk components.

Chapter 2, How to Use ToolTalk Messaging contains the information you need to write an application using the ToolTalk service in the Common Desktop Environment, including the kinds of ToolTalk toolkit messages that need to be included in your application in order for it to interoperate with other ToolTalk-aware Common Desktop Environment-compliant applications.

Chapter 3, Using TTSnoop to Debug Messages and Patterns describes how to create and send custom-constructed ToolTalk messages, and also how to selectively monitor any or all ToolTalk messages.

Chapter 4, Using ToolTalk Tracing describes how a ToolTalk pattern matches and delivers every message ttsession sees.

Appendix A, The Messaging Toolkit describes some of the application program interface (API functions) that are a part of the messaging toolkit.

Appendix B, The CoEd Demonstration Program gives the ToolTalk-related portions of the ptype, header, and .c files of the ToolTalk demo program CoEd.

Appendix C, New ToolTalk Functions describes the ToolTalk functions that map file names between local and canonical paths.