| Tutors: |
Alan Dix and Devina Ramduny
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| Audience: |
This is a first course for anyone wanting to develop user interfaces under X windows.
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| Style: |
Taught as a mixture of short lectures interspersed with hands-on sessions.
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| Content: |
Brief history of X Windows. Basic X concepts: ' windows' , X events, network operation and meaning of client/server under X. Layers in X: Xlib, X intrinsics and Motif. The structure of Motif programs and simple widgets. The Motif widget hierarchy, compared with X window hierarchy and Motif run-time hierarchy. Attaching functionality: call-backs and application data structures. The Motif style guide - designing compliant user interfaces.
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| Objective: |
The attendee should leave the course able to produce forms-style interfaces under X Motif, including menus, dialogue boxes and other WIMP features.
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| Prerequisites: |
Assumes some C programming experience.
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| Length: |
Two days.
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| Note: |
This course does not cover X toolkit graphics, the use of the resource database or localisation.
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