Common Desktop Environment

Common Desktop Environment: Application Builder User's Guide

This book introduces the Application Builder and shows you how to use it. The Application Builder is an interactive tool for developing applications. This tool 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 messaging, drag and drop, and the Session Manager.  

Common Desktop Environment: Desktop KornShell User's Guide

This book 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 that you can gradually build your understanding of how dtksh works. The book also includes a list of the commands that are supported by dtksh and their syntaxes.

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

This book describes how to develop online help for Common Desktop Environment application software. The book explains how to create help topics and how authors and developers collaborate to integrate online help into a Motif application. For authors, this document 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 document describes the Help System application programming interface that enables the application to invoke help topics. The book explains the help dialog widgets, how to respond to help requests, and how to navigate hyperlink data.  

Common Desktop Environment: Internationalization Programmer's Guide

This book provides information for internationalizing an application so that it can support various languages and cultural conventions in a consistent user interface. This document contains guidelines and hints for developers on how to write applications for worldwide distribution. This book also includes an overall view of internationalization topics that span different layers within the desktop, and pointers to reference more detailed documentation.  

Common Desktop Environment: Product Glossary

This book provides a comprehensive list of terms that are used in the Common Desktop Environment and is a resource and reference base for all users of CDE. Glossary definitions can include information about the audience, where the term originated, and the CDE component that uses the term in its graphical user interface. A preferred term is listed where appropriate. 

Common Desktop Environment: Programmer's Overview

This book provides a high-level discussion of the CDE development environment and the developer documentation set. The book also contains an architectural overview of the entire CDE desktop. 

Common Desktop Environment: Style Guide and Certification Checklist

This book provides application-design style guidelines and the list of requirements for Common Desktop Environment application-level certification. This document 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 9 software predates the Open Group's CDE 2.1 standard, you can also consult the Style Guide Set that is published by the Open Group for additional style considerations. 

Common Desktop Environment: ToolTalk Messaging Overview

This book describes the ToolTalk components, commands, and error messages that are offered as routines to enable your application to conform to the Media Exchange and Desktop Services message set conventions. This document 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

This book addresses issues of concern to Sun Motif developers. Those issues include how to run existing OPEN LOOK and Motif applications on the OpenWindows and Solaris Common Desktop Environment desktops, and how to port OPEN LOOK and Motif applications to the Solaris CDE environment. This document assumes familiarity with OPEN LOOK or Motif programming.  

Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Programmer's Guide

This book is for programmers who are 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, or C programming.  

Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Advanced User's and System Administrator's Guide

This book explains the advanced tasks that are needed to customize the appearance and behavior of the Solaris Common Desktop Environment (CDE). The book includes chapters on customizing system initialization, login, session initiation, and adding applications and providing interface representations for applications and their data. Other topics include configuring desktop processes, applications, and data across the network; and customizing desktop services such as window management, printing, colors, and fonts. 

Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User's Guide

This book describes the basic features of the Common Desktop Environment (CDE). This book also describes how to use the desktop and desktop applications. 

Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User's Transition Guide

This book is for users who are making the transition from the OpenWindows environment to the Common Desktop Environment. The book discusses CDE as a graphical operating environment and, where helpful, identifies the differences in behavior between OpenWindows and CDE. The answers to frequently asked questions have been integrated into the relevant topics.