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Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Motif Transition Guide

Preface

Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Motif Transition Guide addresses:

This manual assumes you are familiar with OPEN LOOK or Motif programming. Use it in conjunction with Motif and OPEN LOOK manuals to enable your application to run on the latest Sun desktops.

Note -

This book generically uses the terminology Solaris Motif for the Motif toolkit that is included with either the Solaris CDE unbundled software or the Solaris software.

Who Should Use This Book

Read Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Motif Transition Guide if you are:

This manual assumes that you are proficient in OPEN LOOK (XView(TM) or OLIT) or Motif application development on UNIX® platforms. If you are an OPEN LOOK developer, it assumes you are familiar with Motif, as well.

Before You Read This Book

If you are considering porting your application to the Solaris CDE desktop, and you are not familiar with CDE, you should first read:

See Appendix C, Recommended Reading for a listing of all the CDE documentation.

How This Book Is Organized

This manual consists of these chapters and appendixes:

Chapter 1, Moving to Motif and CDE provides a roadmap to using this manual, depending on what types of tasks you want to perform on your application.

Chapter 2, Motif Environment contains information for developers writing Solaris Motif applications for either the OpenWindows or CDE environment.

Chapter 3, Solaris Motif Toolkits describes the Solaris Motif toolkit and identifies the non-standard parts of the Solaris 2.3 (IXI) Motif toolkit.

Chapter 4, Development Environment Transition Issues compares and contrasts the OpenWindows and CDE development environments.

Chapter 5, Toolkit Transition Issues discusses transitioning your application from an OPEN LOOK graphical user interface (GUI) to Solaris Motif.

Chapter 6, Porting Issues and Ideas provides information to consider for porting your OPEN LOOK application to CDE.

Chapter 7, Porting Example: OPEN LOOK to Solaris Motif presents a simple porting example.

Appendix A, User Interaction Changes describes the user interaction changes from the OPEN LOOK to the CDE user model.

Appendix B, Internationalization and CDE describes the things you must do differently from the OpenWindows environment to internationalize an application for the CDE desktop.

Appendix C, Recommended Reading lists books and articles on issues related to OPEN LOOK, Motif, and CDE application development.

Related Books

For a list of the CDE documentation and reading material of interest to OPEN LOOK and Motif developers, see Appendix C, Recommended Reading.

Ordering Sun Documents

The SunDocsSM program provides more than 250 manuals from Sun Microsystems, Inc. If you live in the United States, Canada, Europe, or Japan, you can purchase documentation sets or individual manuals using this program.

For a list of documents and how to order them, see the catalog section of SunExpressTM on the Internet at http://www.sun.com/sunexpress.

What Typographic Changes Mean

The following table describes the type changes used in this book.

Table P-1 Typographic Conventions

Typeface or Symbol 

Meaning 

Example 

AaBbCc123

The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output 

Edit your .login file.

Use ls -a to list all files.

 

AaBbCc123

Command-line placeholder: 

replace with a real name or value 

To delete a file, type rm filename.

AaBbCc123

Book titles, new words or terms, or words to be emphasized 

Read Chapter 6 in User's Guide. These are called class options.

You must be root to do this.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.

Table P-2 Shell Prompts

Shell 

Prompt 

C shell prompt 

machine_name%

C shell superuser prompt 

machine_name#

Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt 

$ 

Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt 

#