Appendix C Recommended Reading
This appendix lists books and articles on issues related to OPEN LOOK, Motif, and Solaris CDE application development. The books are available through Sun Express or through your local bookstore.
CDE Documentation
The Common Desktop Environment documentation set contains documents that will help you in your transition to Solaris CDE. These books will be published soon by Addison-Wesley.
Development Environment
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Common Desktop Environment: Style Guide and Certification Checklist
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Common Desktop Environment: Application Builder User's Guide
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Common Desktop Environment: Help System Author's and Programmer's Guide
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Common Desktop Environment: Internationalization Programmer's Guide
Online man pages are available for all development environment components.
Run-time Environment
Online help volumes are available for most of the run-time environment components.
ToolTalk Documentation
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The ToolTalk Service: An Inter-Operability Solution, published by SunSoft Press and PTR Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632, ISBN 0-13-088717-X
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ToolTalk and Open Protocols: Inter-Application Communication, by Astrid Julienne and Brian Holtz, published by SunSoft Press and PTR Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632, ISBN 013-031055-7
The Solaris 7 Software Developer AnswerBook set contains:
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ToolTalk Reference Manual
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ToolTalk User's Guide
Motif 2.1 Documentation
The documentation listed in this section describes Motif 2.1 interfaces. You can purchase these books at your local bookstore.
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OSF Application Environment Specification (AES) User Environment Volume, Revision C, PTR Prentice Hall, 1993.
Describes the Motif Application Environment Specification. Information on these specifications can also be found in the Motif 2.1 - Programmer's Reference.
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CDE 2.1/Motif 2.1 User's Guide from The Open Group (www.opengroup.org)
This guide describes the basic features of both the Motif user environment and the Common Desktop Environment. It explains how a user interacts with these features and with Motif and CDE-based applications, as well as how to customize Motif environments and the CDE and how to use the Information Manager to access, read, and search online documentation.
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Motif 2.1 - Programmer's Reference from The Open Group (www.opengroup.org)
This programmer's reference manual provides reference information for the Motif commands and functions in UNIX-style manual pages. The reference information covers the toolkit (library functions, widget documentation, and resources), the window manager, UI language commands, and the library functions.
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Motif 2.1 - Programmer's Guide from The Open Group (www.opengroup.org)
These three volumes provide detailed reference descriptions of all Motif programs, Xt widget classes, Xm widget classes, translations, Xm data types and functions, Mrm functions, Uil functions, and file formats.
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CDE 2.1/Motif 2.1 - Style Guide and Glossary from The Open Group (www.opengroup.org)
This guide provides developers who design and implement new products with a framework of behavior specifications that is consistent with the Motif and Common Desktop Environment (CDE) user interface. This behavior is established by drawing out the common elements from a variety of current behavioral models. The document also includes a comprehensive glossary of terms used in the Desktop Documentation set.
Graphical User Interfaces
OPEN LOOK to Motif GUI Transition Guide 801,6567-10, SunSoft, October, 1993.
OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface: Programmer's Guide, UNIX System Laboratories, 1992.
OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface: User's Guide, UNIX System Laboratories, 1992.
OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface Application Style Guidelines, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1990.
OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface Functional Specification, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1990.
OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface: Programmer's Reference Manual, Prentice Hall, 1992.
OPEN LOOK Intrinsics Toolkit Widget Set Programmer's Guide, AT&T, 1990.
OPEN LOOK Intrinsics Toolkit Widget Set Reference Manual, AT&T, 1990.
OSF/Motif Programmer's Guide, Revision 1.2, Open Software Foundation, Prentice Hall, 1993.
OSF/Motif Programmer's Reference, Revision 1.2, Open Software Foundation, Prentice Hall, 1993.
OSF/Motif Style Guide, Revision 1.2, Open Software Foundation, Prentice Hall, 1993.
OLIT & Motif: A Technical Comparison, Amy Moore, M. Goyal, SunSoft, September, 1992.
Motif Programming
Motif Programming in the X Window System Environment, William A. Parrette, McGraw-Hill, 1993.
Motif Programming: The Essentials--and More, Marshall Brain, Digital Press, 1992.
Motif Programming Manual, Dan Heller, O'Reilly & Associates, 1992.
Motif Reference Manual, Paula Ferguson, O'Reilly & Associates, 1992.
The X Window System Programming and Applications with Xt, OSF/Motif Edition, Douglas Young, Prentice Hall, 1990.
OPEN LOOK Programming
An OPEN LOOK at Unix: A Developer's Guide to X. John David Miller, M&T Books, 1990.
The X Window System Programming and Applications with Xt, OPEN LOOK Edition, Douglas Young and John A. Pew, Prentice Hall, 1992.
XView Programming Manual, Dan Heller, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1991.
XView Reference Manual, Thomas Van Raalte (ed.), O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1991.
Xt/XLib Programming
Programmer's Supplement for Release 5 of the X Window System, Version 11, David Flanagan, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1991.
X Toolkit Intrinsics Programming Manual, Adrian Nye and Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1990.
X Window System Toolkit, Paul J. Asente and Ralph R. Swick, Digital Press, 1990.
X Window System, X Version 11 Release 5, Third Edition, Digital Press, 1992.
X Toolkit Intrinsics Reference Manual, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1991.
Xlib: C Language X Interface, James Gettys, Robert W. Scheifler, Ron Newman, Silicon Press, 1989.
Xlib Programming Manual, Adrian Nye, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1990.
Xlib Reference Manual, Adrian Nye (ed.), O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1990.
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