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). An abstract of each document follows.

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 to use it. The Application Builder is an 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 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 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 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 develop online help for Common Desktop Environment application software. It covers how to create help topics and how authors and developers collaborate to integrate online help into a Motif application. For authors, this book is a step-by-step guide to creating and testing online help that can contain multiple text styles, graphics, and hyperlinks. For application developers, this book describes the Help System application programming interface that allows the application to invoke help topics. It explains the help dialog widgets, how to respond to help requests, and how to navigate the 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 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 with an alternate preferred term.

Common Desktop Environment: Programmer's Overview

The Common Desktop Environment: Programmer's Overview provides a high-level view of the Common Desktop Environment development environment and the developer documentation set. Read this book first before starting application design and development. Application developers can use this book before developing a new Common Desktop Environment application, or integrating an existing Motif or OPEN LOOK^TM application into the desktop. Managers, architects, or project leads should read this book if they are interested in designing a project involving applications that will run on the Common Desktop Environment desktop. This book is complemented by a Solaris specific book Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Programmer's Guide, which explains programming issues that relate only to developing for Solaris CDE.

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 Common Desktop Environment application-level certification. This book provides information to assist the application designer in developing consistent applications and behaviors within the applications. By default, this checklist assumes that your application is being designed for a left-to-right language environment in an English-language locale. These style requirements consist of the Motif 2.1 requirements with Solaris Common Desktop Environment-specific additions. Though Solaris 7 software predates the Open Group's CDE 2.1 standard, you may also want to consult the Style Guide Set published by The Open Group for additional style considerations.

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 Motif developers: how to run existing OPEN LOOK and Motif applications on the OpenWindows and Solaris Common Desktop Environment desktops; and porting OPEN LOOK and Motif applications to the Solaris CDE environment. This manual assumes you are familiar with OPEN LOOK or Motif programming.

Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Programmer's Guide

The Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Programmer's Guide describes the Solaris Common Desktop Environment development environment. Use this guide if you are a programmer interested in integrating an existing application into Solaris CDE, or in developing a new application that uses the features and functionality of Solaris CDE. Some sections of this guide assume that you are familiar with Motif, X, UNIX\256, or C programming. It is intended for use alongside the Common Desktop Environment: Programmer's Overview, and the Motif Programmer's Reference Set published by The Open Group.