A First MOTIF Program

In this section we will develop our first MOTIF program. It will not do a lot but we will learn quite a lot about MOTIF.

• 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