Study the Target Environment

The CDE desktop is quite different from the OpenWindows desktop, although it contains many of the same types of tools. The most obvious difference is that it is a Motif desktop. Read the "Architectural Overview" chapter of Common Desktop Environment: Programmer's Overview for a discussion of the end user and development environment architectural structure. Also read about:

• Motif: See "Motif 2.1 Documentation" and "Motif Programming" for a listing of Motif documentation.

• CDE Look and Feel: Refer to Common Desktop Environment: Style Guide and Certification Checklist for details. To be style-guide compliant, your application must pass the checklist at the end of the book.

• CDE Run-time and Development Environments: See "CDE Documentation" for a listing of all CDE documentation that Sun provides. In addition, the desktop applications each have online help volumes.