X WINDOWS

Dr A D Marshall
Room M 1.38

David Marshall 1994

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• Copyright
• Books
• Why Learn X Windows?
• About this Course
• Kernighan and Ritchie C
• Course Structure
• The X Window System
  • What is X Windows?
  • Why Use GUIs?
  • X Window Principles
    • Background
    • X System Concepts and definitions
    • Clients and Servers
  • Xlib, MOTIF and other Toolkits
    • The X Programming Model
    • Xlib
    • Intinsics
    • The MOTIF Toolkit
    • The Window Manager
• A First MOTIF Program
  • What will our program do?
  • What will we learn from this program?
  • The push.c program
  • Calling Motif, Xt and Xlib functions
    • Header Files
  • Compiling Motif Programs
  • Basic Motif programming principles
    • Initializing the toolkit
    • Widget Creation
  • Managing Widgets
  • Events and Callbacks
    • Principles of Event Handling
    • Translation tables
    • Adding callbacks
    • Declaring callback functions
  • Finishing off - displaying widgets and event loops
• Widget Basics
  • Primitive Widgets
  • Gadgets
  • Manager Widgets
  • Widget Resources
    • Shell Widgets
    • Constraint Widgets
  • Overriding Resource Defaults
    • .Xdefaults file
    • Dymanic Control
    • Set Resource at Creation
  • Strings in Motif
• Combining Widgets
  • How are we going to achieve this?
  • The RowColumn Widget
  • Forms
    • Simple Attachment -form1.c
    • Attach positions - form2.c
    • Opposite attchment - form3.c
    • A more complete form program
• The MainWindow Widget and Menus
  • The MainWindow widget
  • The MenuBar
    • A simple MenuBar
    • PullDown Menus
  • Other MainWindow children
• Dialogs
  • The WarningDialog
  • The InformationDialog Widget
  • The dialog1.c program
  • Error, Working and Question Dialogs
  • Unwanted Dialog Buttons
  • The PromptDialog Widget
    • The prompt.c program
  • Selection and FileSelection Dialogs
  • User Defined Dialogs
• Text Widgets
  • Text Widget Creation
  • Putting text into a Text Widget
  • Example Text Programs - text.c, file_lister.c
  • Editing Text
  • Scrolling Control
  • Text Callbacks
• List Widgets
  • List selection modes
  • List basics
    • Adding and removing list items
  • Selecting and Deselecting items
    • List Enquiry
  • List Callbacks
  • list.c program
• Scale Widgets
  • Scale basics
  • Scale Callbacks
  • The scale.c program
  • Scale Style
• ScrolledWindow and ScrollBar Widgets
  • ScrolledWindow Widgets
  • ScrollBar Widgets
• Toggle Widgets
  • Toggle Basics
  • Toggle Callbacks
  • The toggle.c program
  • Grouping Toggles
• Xlib and Motif
  • Xlib Basics
  • Graphics Contexts
  • Two Dimensional Graphics
  • XEvents
    • XEvent Types
    • Writing Your Own Event Handler
  • Pixmaps
  • Colour
• The DrawingArea Widget
  • Creating a DrawingArea Widget
  • DrawingArea Resources and Callbacks
  • Using DrawingAreas in Practice
    • draw.c - Basic Drawing
    • draw_input.c - Input to a DrawingArea
    • draw_input2.c - drawing to a pixmap
• Colour
  • Why is colour so complex?
  • Colour Basics
  • Displaying Colour
  • Colour in X/Motif
    • Colour Database
    • Explicit Colour Coding
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