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From: jackv@turnkey.gryphon.COM (Jack F. Vogel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: MOTIF documentation
Keywords: MOTIF,X
Message-ID: <6408@turnkey.gryphon.COM>
Date: 3 Jan 90 16:22:03 GMT
References: <43335@wlbr.IMSD.CONTEL.COM>
Reply-To: jackv@turnkey.gryphon.COM
Organization: Turnkey Computer Consultants, Westchester, CA
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In article <43335@wlbr.IMSD.CONTEL.COM> amc@wlv.imsd.contel.com (Allen M. Cohen) writes:
>Does anybody know where I can get documentation on MOTIF for
>beginners?  E.G., Is there a "MOTIF Programmer's Guide"; something
>with lots of examples, etc.

At this point the only place to get MOTIF documentation is with the MOTIF
distribution, it contains a 180 page programmers guide which is formatted
in postscript and prints out quit nicely. IMHO, this is the nicest toolkit
documentation that I have seen so far! (Will be interested in R4's). Of
course, the programmer's guide is just one piece of the whole package, there
is also a 400+ page reference to the widget library and so on. It may be that
some of the vendors that resell MOTIF (like ISC) will include all this, but
I haven't seen any yet.

The only other source of such information that I have heard of is the
forthcoming version of D. Young's book which is supposed to convert over
from using the HP widgets to MOTIF. Unfortunately, I doubt whether this
would be able to include a full library reference.


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