03-25-2002
There are many reasons and advantages to programming in Motif. A few of these reason are like below:
Motif provides an introduction to graphic user interface (GUI) programming -- all computers now employ some form of a GUI to their operating systems and other key applications. Most GUIs adhere to similar design principles. Motif can be as regarded a high level GUI toolkit that adopts and enforces common GUI design principles.
X Window provides a consistent means of graphical user interaction for UNIX workstations.
Motif provides a high level toolkit, that already has many fully featured GUI objects. For example cut and paste, multi-line text editors, file browsers, drag and drop mechanisms. Simple yet usable Motif applications can be assembled by bolting such objects together. Motif speeds up GUI program development.
The X Window system is device independent -- it can run on most common computer platforms. If there is a need for different platforms to interact together over a network, X Window might be a good way to achieve this.
Professional X Window programmers are still not that numerous even though they are in great demand.
A quick scan through any Computer Vacancies Column in major Computer magazines, journals or employment agencies highlight the needs on Motif Programming.
In base, Motif Programming is not old and it should be learned by every everyone especially those thinking of GUI based programming.
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libforms1
XFORMS(5) Forms Library XFORMS(5)
NAME
xforms - A GUI Toolkit for X Window Systems
SYNOPSIS
Forms Library for X (xforms) is a GUI toolkit and builder for the X Window Systems and runs on all major UNIX platforms as well as OpenVMS
and OS2. Forms Library is too complex to be described in the "man" page format. Ask your system administrator for the location of the
HTML, PDF or PostScript document or follow the links on the Forms Library's home page for an online version of the documentation.
DESCRIPTION
Forms Library is a graphical user interface toolkit based on Xlib for X Window Systems. It comes with a rich set of objects such as but-
tons, browsers, sliders and menus integrated into an elegant event/object callback execution model that allows fast and easy construction
of X applications. In addition, the library has support for image read and write, format conversion and simple image processing. The
library consists of a flexible set of C-routines that can be used in C and C++ programs (As of this writing, perl, ada95, pascal, scheme
and Fortran bindings to the Forms Library are in beta.)
The library is efficient and portable and runs on all major Unix platforms, including Sun, SGI, HP, DEC Alpha/OSF, IBM RS6000, Convex,
Cray, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, SCO, Unixware, OpenBSD , BSDi, DecSystem(mips)/Ultrix and others. Non-unix platforms include OpenVMS, OS/2,
and Window/NT.
Bundled with the library is also a Form designer, fdesign, which can be used to build interaction forms in a WYSIWYG (what you see is what
you get) way and to generate the corresponding C (or any of the binding languages) code for you. 50+ demos in source code are distributed
with the library.
OPTIONS
All programs written using the Forms Library recognize the following command line options
-display host:dpy
specifies the server to connect to.
-bw borderwidth
specifies the border width to use for built-in objects.
-flversion
prints the xforms version information.
-visual visualName
requests a visual by name such as TrueColor etc. By default the Forms Library always selects the visual that has the most depth.
-depth depth
requests a specific depth.
-fldebug level
generates some info about the state of the XForms. where level is an integer between 1-5 and controls the amount of information to
output. Depending on the options used when the Forms Library was built, a level more than 3 might not be available.
-sync runs the application in synchronous mode with debug level set to 4.
-private
requests a private colormap for the application.
-shared
requests a shared colormap even if the application needs more colors than available. For those colors that can't be allocated in the
shared colormap, substitutions are made so the closest matching color is used.
-stdcmap
requests a standard colormap.
-name newname
specifies the application name under which resources are to be obtained, rather than the default executable file name.
SEE ALSO
fdesign(1L), fd2ps(1L)
AUTHOR
Copyright (c) 1996-2002 T.C. Zhao, Mark Overmars and Steve Lamont
Since 2002: GNU Lesser General Public License
Maintainers: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes, Angus Leeming and Jens Thoms Toerring <jt@toerring.de>
HOME PAGE
http://xforms-toolkit.org
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/xforms/
Version 1.0.92 October 2009 XFORMS(5)