Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Motif Transition Guide

Preface

Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Motif Transition Guide addresses:

• Issues of concern to Sun Motif developers

• How to run existing OPEN LOOK and Motif applications on the OpenWindows™ 3.6 and Solaris Common Desktop Environment (CDE) desktops

• Porting OPEN LOOK and Motif applications to the Solaris CDE environment

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:

• A Motif programmer interested in developing Solaris Motif applications for the OpenWindows 3.6 or Solaris CDE desktop

• An OPEN LOOK or Motif programmer, and you want your existing applications to run on the OpenWindows 3.6 or Solaris CDE desktop with little or no code modification

• Interested in porting your OPEN LOOK or Motif application to the Solaris CDE desktop

This manual assumes that you are proficient in OPEN LOOK (XView™ 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:

• Common Desktop Environment: Programmer's Overview

  Common Desktop Environment: Programmer's Overview provides a high level view of the CDE development environment components. It also includes an architectural overview of the entire CDE system, including both the runtime (end user) and development environments.

• Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User's Guide

  Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User's Guide provides an in-depth description of the CDE runtime environment.

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 road map 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.

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