Solaris Common Desktop Environment Developer AnswerBook

The Solaris Common Desktop Environment Developer AnswerBook contains manuals relevant for software developers programming in the Common Desktop Environment (CDE). A list of documents with their abstracts follow.

Common Desktop Environment: Application Builder User's Guide

The Common Desktop Environment: Application Builder User's Guide introduces the Application Builder and shows you how best to use it. The Application Builder is an easy-to-use interactive tool for developing applications. It provides features that facilitate both the construction of an application's graphical user interface and the incorporation of CDE's many useful desktop services, including the Help System, ToolTalk^TM messaging, drag and drop, and the Session Manager.

Common Desktop Environment: Desktop KornShell User's Guide

The Common Desktop Environment: Desktop KornShell User's Guide explains how to use the Desktop KornShell to create Motif^TM applications. It introduces basic dtksh skills and provides several sample scripts. The samples are presented in order of increasing complexity, so you can gradually build your understanding of how dtksh works. The guide also includes an appendix containing a list of the commands supported by dtksh and their syntaxes.

Common Desktop Environment: Help System Author's and Programmer's Guide

The Common Desktop Environment: Help System Author's and Programmer's Guide describes how to create online help information and integrate it into an OSF/Motif application. The Help System provides tools for authors and application developers. Authors can use this guide as a step-by-step handbook to create and display online help containing multiple text styles, graphics, and hyperlinks. For application developers, this guide describes the Help System application programming interface that provides access to help information directly from the application. It explains the help dialog widgets, how to respond to help requests, and how to navigate hyperlink data.

Common Desktop Environment: Internationalization Programmer's Guide

The Common Desktop Environment: Internationalization Programmer's Guide provides information for internationalizing an application so that it can be easily localized to support various languages and cultural conventions in a consistent user interface. This book contains guidelines and hints for developers on how to write applications for worldwide distribution, an overall view of internationalization topics that span different layers within the desktop, and pointers to reference and more detailed documentation.

Common Desktop Environment: Product Glossary

The Common Desktop Environment: Product Glossary provides a comprehensive list of terms used in the Common Desktop Environment to act as a source and reference base for all users of CDE. Glossary definitions can include information about the audience, where the term originated, the CDE component that uses the term in its graphical user interface, and terms marked Do not use that provide a preferred term as an alternative.

Common Desktop Environment: Programmer's Overview

The Common Desktop Environment: Programmer's Overview provides a high-level discussion of the CDE development environment and the developer documentation set. It also contains an architectural overview of the entire CDE desktop.

Common Desktop Environment: Style Guide and Certification Checklist

The Common Desktop Environment: Style Guide and Certification Checklist provides application design style guidelines and the list of requirements for CDE application-level certification. These requirements consist of the Motif Version 1.2 requirements with CDE-specific additions. The guidelines in this book assist the application designer in developing consistent applications and behaviors within the applications.

Common Desktop Environment: ToolTalk Messaging Overview

The Common Desktop Environment: ToolTalk Messaging Overview describes the ToolTalk components, commands, and error messages offered as routines to enable your application to conform to the Media Exchange and Desktop Services message set conventions. This book is for developers who create or maintain applications that use the ToolTalk service to interoperate with other applications in the Common Desktop Environment.

Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Motif Transition Guide

The Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Motif Transition Guide addresses issues of concern to Sun^TM Motif developers; how to run existing OPEN LOOK^TM and Motif applications on the OpenWindows(TM) 3.6 and CDE 1.2 desktops; and porting OPEN LOOK and Motif applications to the Solaris CDE environment. This book assumes that you are familiar with OPEN LOOK or Motif programming.

Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Programmer's Guide

The Common Desktop Environment: Programmer's Guide is for programmers interested in integrating an existing application into the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), or in developing a new application that uses the features and functionality of CDE. This book describes the CDE development environment, and assumes that you are familiar with Motif, X, UNIX^TM\256, or C programming.