Elements of Migrating

Migrating from the OPEN LOOK user interface to Motif is complex. It generally will not amount to a widget-for-widget swap. Do not expect it to be as straightforward as a line-by-line code translation. Depending on your application, the migration can range from a major architectural impact down to subtle widget differences.

Besides migrating from the OPEN LOOK user interface to Motif, porting to the Solaris CDE desktop means that you have the Solaris CDE development environment infrastructure available to your application. See Chapter 4, Development Environment Transition Issues for a summary of some of these features. See Common Desktop Environment: Programmer's Overview for a more detailed description of the development environment components and documentation.