Integrating into the Solaris CDE Environment

Recommended and optional integration require changes to your code to implement the functionality within these categories. Your application will be even more integrated with the desktop the more CDE functionality you adopt.

Recommended Integration

The Solaris CDE development environment contains components and guidelines so that your application will integrate well with other applications on the desktop:

• Help system

• ToolTalk messaging system

• Session Manager

• Drag and drop

• Internationalization

• Standard font names

• Error message guidelines

• User customization issues

Optional Integration

The following Solaris CDE components enable you to leverage services provided by the desktop for achieving specialized tasks:

• Solaris Motif control widgets

• Data typing

• Action invocation

• Workspace Manager

• Terminal widget

• Text editor widget

• Calendar API

• Desktop Korn shell