Where to get Information on Programming in X
OLC does not have the resources to to provide in depth programming
assistance. However, if you can provide a brief description of the
problem, we'll leave your question active for 3 days, so that if there
are any Consultants or volunteers with both the expertise and time
available to assist, they can take a look at your problem.
The following resources may be of use to programmers who wish to
program in X. Note that olc should not be looked to
for support; we're not properly equipped to help X programmers with
their X programming problems. We hope that these resources will be of
use to you.
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Manual pages on-line
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- X(1)
- (Yes, that's a capital X.) It gives a general outline; more
useful to users than programmers. Type man X to see
it.
- Xt and Xlib manual pages
- Type add x11 and then apropos X
at your unix prompt to get a general listing.
- Motif manual pages
- These are in /mit/motif/man; type add motif; man
whatever to get the man page.
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Available at Graphic Arts:
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X Toolkit Intrinsics - C Language Interface .....$10.45
X Toolkit Athena Widgets - C Lang. Interface .... $6.60
Xlib - C Language Interface .....................$16.25
OSF/Motif Programmer's Guide ....................$23.00
OSF/Motif Style Guide ........................... $5.00
OSF/Motif Programmer's Reference Manual .........$22.60
(For other documents available in graphic arts, select menu Documentation and the entry
Where
to Pick Up Documenation.)
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Available at the Coop
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Examples of code
- After you type attach x11 at the athena% prompt,
you may examine the sample code in, and beneath, these directories:
/mit/x11/src/mit/examples
/mit/x11/src/contrib/examples/OReilly
/mit/x11/src/contrib/games
/mit/x11/src/contrib/clients
There is also the Course Development Clearinghouse locker. To see the
information in it, type attach cdc, and then read the
file /mit/cdc/README for a full description of the contents
of the locker. It contains demo code, as well a simple example X
appication, documentation and reference material, and pointers on
beginning to program with the Motif toolkit.
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Newsgroups/Discuss Meetings/Mailing Lists
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- Newsgroups available in netnews:
- Discuss meetings:
- motif (on menelaus.mit.edu)
- Mailing lists:
- xpert
- This list gets sent to a number of people, and also to the comp.windows.x newsgroup. You should
send mail to xpert-request to get added to this list;
DO NOT send mail to xpert asking to be
added.
- motif
- goes to the list motif-talk-athena and the motif discuss meeting.
To subscribe to this list, either read the discuss meeting, or
subscribe to the motif-talk-athena mailing list.
- motif-talk@osf.osf.org
- National mailing list for discussion of motif topics. DO
NOT send mail to this list asking to be added; add yourself
to the motif-talk-athena list below.
- motif-talk-athena
- local redistribution for motif-talk mailing list; add yourself to
this list by using the listmaint program.