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Phil Ottewell

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(work in progress) Phil's Motif® Guide


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Introduction

X Motif was developed by the X Consortium and Open Software Foundation. It is built on top of the low level X Lib X Windows library routines, and the slightly higher level Xt Toolkit Intrinsic routines. The X Window System was developed at M.I.T. from the W Window System, hence the name.

Getting Started

The basic building block of a Motif application (and inspiration of the background to this page) is the Widget.

Until I get round to writing some stuff here, try Kenton Lee's Motif Home Page which is an excellent source of advice on all areas of X and Motif programming. You might also want to look at The Motif Developer which has some of the articles from the old X Advisor and many new ones. This online magazine has loads of interesting artciles and Motif tips.

Examples

I'm writing a simple example prgram that should be on here soon, with suitable annotations. Meanwhile, here's LiteClue, a port of Gary Aviv's "help bubbles" for Motif. This should work for VMS VAX and Alpha, and various Unix systems.

XVMSUTILS and other Unix libraries ported to VMS

Patrick Moreau's excellent DECWindows Archive - X11 libraries site has XVMSUTILS, Xaw3D and other "Unix" X11 libaries ported to VMS for VAx and Alpha. This is a very useful download because it lets you port a lot of things to VMS that would otherwise be much more difficult to do.

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