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- This article contains the answers to some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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- 0) TOPIC: SUBMITTING SUGGESTIONS, CORRECTIONS, NEW ANSWERS
- 1) TOPIC: WHAT IS MOTIF?
- 2)* Is the Motif source code publically available?
- 3)* What is Motif and how does it relate to the X Toolkit and X Window Sys-
- tem?
- 4) Where did the name "Motif" come from?
- 5) TOPIC: OTHER RELEVANT NEWSGROUPS AND FAQS
- 6) TOPIC: FAQ and NEWSGROUP FTP ARCHIVES
- 7) Is the FAQ available via FTP?
- 8) Can I receive email notification when the Motif FAQ is updated?
- 9) Is this FAQ accessible via WWW?
- 10)* Is this newsgroup archived?
- 11) TOPIC: OSF, MOTIF VERSIONS, CDE, COSE, DCE, The OPEN GROUP
- 12) How can I contact the Open Group?
- 13) Where can I find OSF press releases on Motif and DCE?
- 14)* What versions of Motif are there?
- 15)* How can I find which version of Motif I have? Xlib or Xt version?
- 16) Is there a concise features list for Motif 2.0?
- 17) What are the details about new features in Motif 2.0?
- 18) Is there a concise features list for Motif 2.1?
- 19)+ Is there a concise features list for Motif 2.2?
- 20) Where can I find Motif 2.1 documentation?
- 21)* Is the official Motif documentation available on-line?
- 22) I want to use C++ with Motif. Where can I find C++ examples?
- 23) Is Motif 2.0 backward compatible with Motif 1.2?
- 24) How compatible are Motif 1.2.* and X11R6?
- 25) Why aren't the big UNIX vendors shipping Motif 2.0?
- 26) Where can I get Motif for UNIX, Linux, or Microsoft Windows?
- 27) Is there a list of Motif bugs?
- 28) Where can I get a Motif 1.2 Certification Checklist?
- 29) What is CDE? What is COSE and how does it relate to Motif?
- 30)* Is there a CDE FAQ or newsgroup?
- 31) What is the current version of CDE and what are its features?
- 32) How does Motif relate to X/Open and CDE?
- 33) What is The Open Group?
- 34) Is The Open Group assuming responsibility for the X Window System?
- 35) What are the current correct trademark statements for X and Motif?
- 36) Will CDE and Motif converge? What is the CDE/Motif JDA?
- 37)* Has anyone done a public domain Motif lookalike?
- 38) Does the Open Group have an application compliance validation service?
- 39) What is the motif-talk mailing list?
- 40) How does Motif work with X11R5?
- 41) Where can I find X technical info on the WWW?
- 42) What is Broadway? I've heard it called "X on the Web".
- 43) Where's an HTML version of the Motif FAQ on World Wide Web (WWW)?
- 44) Where can I get the HTML widget used in Mosaic?
- 45)* What widgets does Netscape use for its bookmarks list and preference
- panels?
- 46) TOPIC: BOOKS and JOURNALS
- 47) Is there a Motif tutorial? Xt tutorial? X11 tutorial?
- 48) What books are available for Motif application programmers?
- 49) What relevant journals are available?
- 50) TOPIC: MWM and the SHELL WIDGET
- 51) What is the difference between Motif and mwm?
- 52) Does anyone have an alternative set of 3-D defaults for a monochrome
- screen?
- 53) What are some useful mwm resources I can control?
- 54) How can I configure mwm, such as changing or adding to root menus?
- 55) How can my program determine which window manager is running?
- 56) How can I modify the mwm's window decorations with a resource file?
- 57) How can I programatically modify the mwm's window decorations?
- 58) Is there an ICCCM compliant way of setting window manager decorations?
- 59) How can I put decorations on transient windows using olwm?
- 60) How can I turn off the Motif window manager functions from the system
- menu?
- 61) How can I create a multi-colored window manager icon?
- 62) How can I keep my shell windows fixed in size?
- 63) Why is XtGetValues of XmNx and XmNy of my toplevel shell wrong?
- 64) How do I get XmNx and XmNy positions to be honored correctly?
- 65) How can my application know when the user has quit Mwm?
- 66) How can I tell if the user has selected "Close" from the system menu? How
- do I catch the "Close"?
- 67) Is there an mwm virtual desktop manager?
- 68) Why does mwm 1.2 crash on startup?
- 69) How do I obtain the size of a unmanaged shell widget?
- 70) How can I create a shell widget with a non-default visual type?
- 71) Can a non-shell Motif widget have a different visual type from its
- parent?
- 72) Why do I get BadMatch errors from my menus when I use a non-default visu-
- al type for my application shell?
- 73) How do I popup a scrolled list on top of other widgets?
- 74) How can I keep my application's window always on top of all other appli-
- cations' windows?
- 75) How can I maximize my top level shell?
- 76) TOPIC: MOTIF DEVELOPMENT TOOLS (GUI BUILDERS and UIMS's)
- 77)* What GUI tools exist to assist in developing Motif applications?
- 78) TOPIC: GEOMETRY MANAGEMENT
- 79) Why is geometry management so important?
- 80) Why don't my labels resize in a RowColumn widget?
- 81) Does XmRowColumn support multiple columns with different column widths?
- 82) Why do composite widgets (including dialogs) that were created after
- their parents were realized appear smaller under 1.2.3 and later?
- 83) How does the ScrolledWindow manage resizing?
- 84) Does the XmPanedWindow widget support horizontal paning?
- 85) TOPIC: TEXT WIDGET
- 86) How do XmTextField and a single line XmText widget differ?
- 87) Why does pressing RETURN in a text widget do nothing?
- 88) Can you reuse the return value from XtParseTranslationTable?
- 89) When I add text to a scrolling text widget, how can I get the new text to
- show?
- 90) How do I scroll text to display the most recently added information?
- 91) Does the text widget support 16 bit character fonts?
- 92) How can I stop the text widget from echoing characters typed?
- 93) How can I replace characters typed with say a `*'?
- 94) How can I make a text widget insensitive without graying out the text?
- 95) How can I best add a large piece of text to a scrolled text widget?
- 96) How can I get the correct colors for scrolled text widget scrollbars (Sun
- only)?
- 97) How can I highlight text in the Text widget?
- 98) How can I select all of the text in a widget programmatically?
- 99) Can I customize the pointer cursor or insert position indicator used by
- the text widget?
- 100) How can I change colours of text in the Text widget?
- 101) How can I change the font of text in the Text widget?
- 102) Is there an emacs binding for the text widget?
- 103) What if I have problems with the backspace/delete keys?
- 104) How can I use a file as the text source for a Text widget?
- 105) How can put Text in overstrike mode instead of insert?
- 106) How can I make the Delete key do a Backspace?
- 107) Can I change the tab stops in the XmText widget?
- 108) TOPIC: LIST WIDGET
- 109) Should I create an XmList widget as a child of automatic XmScrolledWin-
- dow or use the XmCreateScrolledList() convenience function?
- 110) How do I best put a new set of items into a list?
- 111) Can I have strings with different fonts in a list?
- 112) Can I get a bitmap to show in a list item like I can in a Label?
- 113) Can I have items with different colors in a list widget?
- 114) How can I line up columns in a list widget?
- 115) Can I grey out an item in a list widget?
- 116) Can I have multi-line items in a list?
- 117) How can I tell the position of selected items in a list?
- 118) How can I configure a scrolled list widget to show a horizontal
- scrollbar when some list items are wider than the window?
- 119) How can I programatically select all of the items in an XmList?
- 120) TOPIC: FILE SELECTION BOX WIDGET
- 121) What is libPW.a and do I need it?
- 122) What are these compile errors: Undefined symbol _regcmp and _regex?
- 123) What's wrong with the Motif 1.0 File Selection Box?
- 124) How can I keep my file selection boxes from resizing when I change
- directories or filters?
- 125) What's wrong with the FileSelectionBox under Solaris?
- 126) TOPIC: FORM WIDGET
- 127) Why don't labels in a Form resize when the label is changed?
- 128) How can I center a widget in a form?
- 129) How do I line up two columns of widgets of different types?
- 130) TOPIC: PUSHBUTTON WIDGET
- 131) Why doesn't the enter or return key activate the button with focus?
- 132) Why can't I use accelerators on buttons not in a menu?
- 133) TOPIC: TOGGLEBUTTON WIDGET
- 134) What widgets give the look of push buttons, but behavior of toggle but-
- tons?
- 135) Can I customize XmToggleButton to use my own indicator graphic (e.g., a
- check mark)?
- 136) TOPIC: ICON WIDGET and PIXMAPS
- 137) What is XPM?
- 138) How do I convert my XPM file into a Pixmap?
- 139) How can I display a multi-color image in a widget?
- 140) Can I use XmGetPixmap in Motif 1.2 to create colored images?
- 141) Why does XpmCreatePixmapFromData fail with a pixmap containing a large
- number of colors?
- 142) How can I convert a Sun/GIF/TIFF image to a pixmap?
- 143) How can I use Motif's pre-defined pixmaps?
- 144) TOPIC: SCALE AND SCROLLBAR WIDGET
- 145) Can the XmScale widget have arrows or tick marks in Motif 2.0?
- 146) How can I set the color of a XmScale widget's trough?
- 147) How does Motif implement mouse button auto-repeat on the scrollbar's ar-
- row buttons?
- 148) TOPIC: LABEL WIDGET
- 149) How can I align the text in a label (button, etc) widget?
- 150) Why doesn't label alignment work in a XmRowColumn?
- 151) How can I set a multi-line label?
- 152) How can I have a vertical label?
- 153) How can I have a Pixmap in a Label?
- 154) Why doesn't the XmLabel widget obey the XmNwith and XmNheight that I
- give it?
- 155) How do you set the background color of a label widget using XtVa-
- TypedArg?
- 156) TOPIC: DRAWING AREA WIDGET
- 157) How can I send an expose event to a Drawing Area widget?
- 158) How can I know when a DrawingArea has been resized?
- 159) How can I create a drawing area widget with a visual type different from
- its parent?
- 160) How can I display postscript in a Motif widget, such as XmDrawingArea?
- 161) TOPIC: MAIN WINDOW WIDGET
- 162) How can I create a message window in an XmMainWindow?
- 163) TOPIC: SCROLLED WINDOW WIDGET
- 164) How do I tell if a scrolled window's scrollbars are visible?
- 165) How can I programatically scroll a XmScrolledWindow in XmAUTOMATIC mode?
- 166) What widget does the XmScrolledWindow use for its clip window?
- 167) How do I create a scrolled window with only one scrollbar?
- 168) TOPIC: MENUS
- 169) How can I change the cursor used in Motif menus?
- 170) How do I put my help menu on the far right of my menubar?
- 171) Can I change or disable the menu bar accelerator from the default (F10)?
- 172) How do I set the current choice in a radio box or an option menu?
- 173) How can I determine the item selected in a a radio box or option menu?
- 174) How can I change the cascade indicator on an option menu?
- 175) How do I unset an XmToggleButton in a radio box?
- 176) Can I place a radio box in a pulldown menu?
- 177) How do I make a menu choice insensitive if it was created with XmVa-
- CreateSimplePulldownMenu?
- 178) What widgets can I put inside a menubar?
- 179) Can I have a cascade button without a submenu in a pulldown menu?
- 180) Should I have a cascade button without a submenu in a pulldown menu?
- 181) What is the best way to create popup menus?
- 182) How do popup menus work?
- 183) How can I disable the button 3 grab if I am not using popup menus?
- 184) Should I use translation tables or actions for popup menus?
- 185) What are the known bugs in popup menus?
- 186) Can I have multiple popup menus on the same widget?
- 187) How can I change the shell title of a tear-off menu?
- 188) Can I programmatically tear-off a menu?
- 189) What widgets are valid within Motif menus?
- 190) Can I create multi-column popup or pulldown menus?
- 191) How can I keep my program from hanging if a user activates a popup that
- is a child of an insensitive push button?
- 192) TOPIC: DRAG AND DROP
- 193) Where can I find info and examples of the Motif drag and drop protocol?
- 194) How can I disable Drag and Drop in my Motif 1.2 client ?
- 195) Can I register client data for the Motif XmDropSite drop callback?
- 196) Can unmanged widgets be valid (drag-and-drop) drop sites?
- 197) TOPIC: INPUT FOCUS
- 198) How can I specify the widget that should have the keyboard focus when my
- application starts up?
- 199) How can I specify my own keyboard traversal order?
- 200) How can I determine which widget has keyboard focus?
- 201) How can I direct the keyboard input to a particular widget?
- 202) How can I have a modal dialog which has to be answered before the appli-
- cation can continue?
- 203) TOPIC: MEMORY AND SPEED
- 204) When can I free data structures passed to or retrieved from Motif?
- 205) What memory leaks are known? Why does my application grow in size?
- 206) Why do I get so many uninitilized memory read (UMR) errors when I run
- Purify[tm] on my Motif programs?
- 207) Why does my application take a long time to start up?
- 208) My application is running too slowly. How can I speed it up?
- 209) Why is my application so huge?
- 210) How can I improve performance when creating and deleting hundreds of
- text widgets?
- 211) After I call XtSetValues, when will I see the changes in my GUI?
- 212) TOPIC: XMSTRING
- 213) What string functions differ in Motif 1.1 and 1.2?
- 214)* How can I get the ASCII text out of an XmString?
- 215) When can XmStrings used as resources be freed?
- 216) Why doesn't XmStringGetNextSegment() work properly?
- 217) Why does using XmStringDraw cause a BadFont error?
- 218) How can I control color of individual strings to show status, etc.?
- 219) TOPIC: DIALOGS
- 220) How do I stop my dialog disappearing when I press the help button?
- 221) How do I make my own dialog?
- 222) Why do dialog title bars have "_popup" or "<-popup" concatenated onto
- the widget name?
- 223) How can I force a dialog window to display?
- 224) How can I control placement of a popup widget?
- 225) How can I set the dialog's default button?
- 226) How can I create a dialog that behaves like, but looks a little dif-
- ferent from, XmMessageBox?
- 227) How can I use Motif's message dialog bitmaps in my own dialogs?
- 228) TOPIC: LANGUAGE BINDINGS
- 229) What is ViewKit? Is there a free version?
- 230) Is there a C++ binding for Motif?
- 231) How can I avoid C++ String class and typedef char *String conflicts?
- 232) How can I have a C++ member function in a callback?
- 233) Is there a Common Lisp binding for Motif?
- 234) Is there an Ada binding for Motif? (Part 1 of 2)
- 235) Is there an Ada binding for Motif? (Part 2 of 2)
- 236) Is there a Poplog binding for Motif?
- 237) TOPIC: SPECIFIC PLATFORMS
- 238) Is it easy to build Motif for a Sun?
- 239) How do I build Motif 1.2.2 on Solaris 2.1 with Sun C?
- 240) What compile errors/warnings might I get in both Sun 3 and Sun 4?
- 241) On a Sun 3, what are the mwm startup error messages about?
- 242) Are there problems making shared libraries on a Sun?
- 243) Why does the OpenWindows server hangs when I popup a menu with Button 3?
- 244) Has anyone made shared libraries on an IBM RS/6000?
- 245) What is the error "Unaligned access in XmString" under Ultrix?
- 246) Can bugs in Sun's OpenWindows server cause Motif clients to crash?
- 247) Why does Motif on Linux crash when I open a file selection box?
- 248) Are there compatibility problems between some Linux Motif libraries and
- libc5 or glibc?
- 249) How can I install Motif on my PC?
- 250) TOPIC: KEYSYMS
- 251) What is causing the messages "unknown keysym name osfDown..."?
- 252) What happens if I can't install Motif Keysyms?
- 253) Why has OSF introduced Keysyms into Motif 1.1?
- 254) Why do accented characters not work with Motif applications linked with
- X11R6? What is the Compose file?
- 255) TOPIC: UIL
- 256) What is UIL and why is it so popular?
- 257) What is Mrm?
- 258) How do I specify a search path for ".uid" files?
- 259) Can I specify callback functions in resource files?
- 260) How can I set a multi-line label in UIL?
- 261) Is there a program that can convert a UIL file to tclMotif?
- 262) Why does my SCO UIL application fail to open 60 UID files?
- 263) TOPIC: ICONIFICATION and DE-ICONIFICATION
- 264) How can I keep track of changes to iconic/normal window state?
- 265) How can I check if my application has come up iconic?
- 266) How can I start my application in iconic state?
- 267) How can an application iconify itself?
- 268) How can an application de-iconify itself?
- 269) Why doesn't MWM display an iconify button on my dialog windows?
- 270) TOPIC: SPECIALIZED WIDGETS
- 271) Where can I get ComboBox, SpinBox, or Tree graph widgets?
- 272) How can I create a transparent widget?
- 273) TOPIC: CREATING WIDGETS
- 274) What are some good references for creating widgets (subclassing widg-
- ets)?
- 275) How can I achieve binary compatibility using the XmResolvePartOffset
- API?
- 276) TOPIC: MISCELLANEOUS
- 277) How can an application be informed of signals?
- 278) How do I control the repeat rate on a SUN keyboard?
- 279) How can I identify the children of a manager widget?
- 280) What functions can an application use to change the size or position of
- a widget?
- 281) Can I use XtAddTimeOut, XtAddWorkProc, and XtAddInput with XtAppMain-
- Loop?
- 282) Why does XtGetValues for XmNx and XmNwidth return extremely large
- values?
- 283) Can I use XmGetPixmap() with widgets that have non-default visual types?
- 284) What is the matter with Frame in Motif 1.2?
- 285) What is IMUG and how do I join it?
- 286) How do I set the title of a top level window?
- 287) How can I disable the color scheme mechanism in CDE or HP VUE?
- 288) Can I use editres with Motif? Is there an editres tutorial?
- 289) Where is the editres protocol documented?
- 290) Why does an augment translation appear to act as replace for some widg-
- ets?
- 291) How do you "grey" out a widget so that it cannot be activated?
- 292) Can I change the graphics drawn by insensitive widgets?
- 293) Why doesn't the Help callback work on some widgets?
- 294)* How can I implement "bubble help" or "tool tips" with Motif?
- 295) Can I specify a widget in a resource file?
- 296) Why are only some of my translations are being installed?
- 297) Can I have separate translations for shifted and unshifted keys?
- 298) What are these "non-existant passive grab" warnings?
- 299) How do I have more buttons than three in a MessageBox?
- 300) How do I create a "busy working cursor"?
- 301) Can I use the hourglass that mwm uses?
- 302) What order should the libraries be linked in?
- 303) How do I use xmkmf for Motif clients?
- 304) How do I use imake with Motif 2.0?
- 305) How do I make context sensitive help?
- 306) How do I debug a modal interaction?
- 307) Why can't I install my own colormap using XInstallColormap?
- 308) How do I install a private colormap?
- 309) How do I get correct shadow colors to match other color changes?
- 310) What color algorithm does Motif use?
- 311) How can you access the superclass widget from which Motif convenience
- dialogs are subclassed?
- 312) Can the Motif 2.0 Notebook widget display non-rectangular "file tabs"?
- 313) How does the clipboard mechanism work?
- 314) Why does the xyz application core dump when I cut and paste?
- 315) Why is XtWindow(widget) == 0?
- 316) How do I debug X protocol errors (e.g., BadWindow, BadMatch) in Motif
- applications?
- 317) Why doesn't XtNameToWidget (widget, "MyName") work?
- 318) Why does my callback's client data structure contain incorrect values
- when the callback is called?
- 319) How can an application manage events on multiple displays?
- 320) Can a Motif application create windows on mutiple screens (on a multi-
- screen workstation)?
- 321) Why do I get "Error: attempt to add non-widget child "dsm" to parent"?
- 322) Why do I get link errors about "XShape" symbols?
- 323) Why do I get link errors about "ICE" and "SM" symbols?
- 324) Why does my X11R6 program crash with undefined symbol "LowerCase"?
- 325) How do I programatically control xwd to dump a specific window?
- 326) How can I display an xwd in a window (without using xwud)?
- 327) Can I write a multi-threaded Motif application?
- 328) How can I dump my widget instance tree in a way that reflects the
- hierarchy?
- 329) How do I get the events for gadgets? Or the name of the gadget?
- 330) Can I set the foreground and background colors of gadgets (e.g., con-
- venience dialog buttons)?
- 331) Can I use a gadget as the parent of a dialog shell?
- 332) Which other widget features do gadgets lack?
- 333) Where can I get the xmon or xscope programs to trace my X protocol?
- 334) What does the error "Couldn't find per display information" mean?
- 335) Can I set widget fallback resources after I've called XtAppInitialize()?
- 336) Can I use the newline character in widget names?
- 337) Is anybody out there selling Windows95 look-alike widgets?
- 338) How can I convert my OLIT programs to the Motif look & feel?
- 339) What does this mean: Warning: Cannot find callback list in XtAddCall-
- back?
- 340) If a single widget has multiple callback functions, are they all execut-
- ed? If so, in what order?
- 341) Why are some widgets still visible after I call XtDestroyWidget() on
- them?
- 342) If I call XtGetValues on a resource that does not exist for a given
- widget, what value is returned?
- 343) Can I reparent a widget (change its parent)?
- 344) Are there any "year 2000" issues within Motif?
- 345) Can I suppress or customize Motif warning and error messages?
- 346) TOPIC: Motif FAQ HISTORY and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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- Subject: 0) TOPIC: SUBMITTING SUGGESTIONS, CORRECTIONS, NEW ANSWERS
- [Last modified: May 97]
-
- Answer: If you want to add to the FAQ, here's the procedure....
-
- If you have suggestions or corrections for any of these answers or any
- additional information, please send them to the e-mail address below. The
- information will be included in the next revision or two.
-
- o Send updates, suggestions, corrections, new answers to:
- kenton@nojunk.rahul.net (Ken Lee)
- X/Motif Consultant
- http://www.rahul.net/kenton/
-
- o _Please_ put "For Motif FAQ" in the Subject line!
- (This is the best way to catch my attention. Really.)
-
- o Please include answers with your FAQ questions.
- (If are looking for an answer to your questions, you may
- want to hire a consultant. My company can do e-mail consulting.)
-
- o For coding-related issues, I would prefer a short textual
- description of the your design rather than a long code sample.
-
- o If you do submit code, make sure it is well tested, portable,
- and robust.
-
- o If you _do not_ want your name or email address listed
- in the FAQ, explicitly state this.
-
-
- The information contained herein has been gathered from a variety of sources.
- In many cases attribution has been lost; if you would like to claim
- responsibility for a particular item, please let us know.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 1) TOPIC: WHAT IS MOTIF?
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 2)* Is the Motif source code publically available?
- [Last modified: Jan 02]
-
- Answer: On May 15, 2000 the Open Group released the Motif source code for
- Motif 2.1, using a public license, to the Open Source community. On January
- 29, 2002, Open Motif 2.2 was released.
-
- For more information on Open Motif, see:
-
- http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/
-
- This web site includes the latest announcements, open source license details,
- a FAQ and other documentation, and allows you to download the Motif source
- code.
-
- Some other web sites dedicated to Open Motif are:
-
- http://www.motifzone.net/
- http://www.metrolink.com/openmotif/
-
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Subject: 3)* What is Motif and how does it relate to the X Toolkit and X
- Window System?
- [Last modified: Jan 02]
-
- Answer: Motif is a widely-accepted set of user interface guidelines developed
- by the Open Software Foundation (OSF) around 1989 which specifies how an X
- Window System application should "look and feel". Motif includes the Motif
- Toolkit (also called "Xm" or the "Motif widgets"), which enforce a policy on
- top of the X Toolkit Intrinsics ("Xt"). Xt is really a "mechanism not policy"
- layer, and Xm provides the specific "look and feel". For example, Xt does not
- insist that windows have titlebars or menus, but it provides hooks for
- developers of specific toolkits (Motif, OpenLook, Athena widgets) to take
- advantage of. In addition to widgets, Motif includes the Motif Style Guide
- document (as well as several others listed in my FAQ) which details how a
- Motif user interface should look and behave to be "Motif compliant".
-
- The X Toolkit Intrinsics are built upon the lowest programming level API
- called "Xlib" (X library). Both Xlib and Xt are specified by the Open Group
- (formerly called the MIT X Consortium), which you can reach at:
-
- http://www.camb.opengroup.org/tech/desktop/x/
-
- In early 1996, OSF merged with X/Open to form the Open Group. At the
- beginning of 1997, the X Consortium closed and transfered ownership of its
- projects to the Open Group. The Open Group continues development and support
- on the X Window System, Motif, CDE, and other technologies.
-
- On May 15, 2000 the Open Group released the Motif source code, using a public
- license, to the Open Source community. The current version of Open Motif 2.2,
- which was released January 29, 2002. For more information, see:
-
- http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/
- http://www.motifzone.net/
-
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 4) Where did the name "Motif" come from?
- [Last modified: Jun 98]
-
- Answer: We had a contest inside of what was then The Open Software Foundation
- to name this thing that we had up to then called the UEC for User Environment
- Component. Lots of things were suggested, but Motif was suggested by one of
- the employees.
-
- Ken Flowers, k.flowers@opengroup.org
-
- FYI - in the art world, a motif is a recurring artistic symbol or theme. The
- meaning obviously carries over to the GUI world.
-
- Ken Lee, http://www.rahul.net/kenton/
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 5) TOPIC: OTHER RELEVANT NEWSGROUPS AND FAQS
- [Last modified: Aug 98]
-
- Answer: This newsgroup is "comp.windows.x.motif". The WWW URL is:
-
- news:comp.windows.x.motif
-
- Many other X-related newgroups and FAQs are available. For a full list, see
-
- http://www.rahul.net/kenton/xsites.framed.html
-
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 6) TOPIC: FAQ and NEWSGROUP FTP ARCHIVES
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 7) Is the FAQ available via FTP?
- [Last modified: Apr 98]
-
- Answer: The Motif FAQ is available as a large single file on Kenton Lee's web
- site:
-
- ftp://ftp.rahul.net/pub/kenton/faqs/Motif-FAQ
- ftp://ftp.rahul.net/pub/kenton/faqs/Motif-FAQ.gz
- ftp://ftp.rahul.net/pub/kenton/faqs/Motif-FAQ.html
- ftp://ftp.rahul.net/pub/kenton/faqs/Motif-FAQ.html.gz
-
- A number of FAQ's (including this one) are available via anonymous ftp at
- rtfm.mit.edu under the directory pub/usenet.
-
- The Motif FAQ is available in 9 parts via anonymous ftp in any of the
- following directories at rtfm.mit.edu:
-
- /pub/usenet-by-group/comp.windows.x.motif
- /pub/usenet-by-group/comp.answers/motif-faq
- /pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/motif-faq
-
- There is also a mail server called mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu. To retrieve a
- file send mail to the server with a subject or body similar to
-
- send usenet/comp.windows.x.motif/Motif_FAQ_(Part_1_of_9).Z
-
-
- The Motif FAQ is also available via anonymous ftp as a single file:
-
- /contrib/faqs/Motif-FAQ from ftp.x.org.
-
- (See also "Is this FAQ accessible via WWW?")
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 8) Can I receive email notification when the Motif FAQ is updated?
- [Last modified: Sept 95]
-
- Answer: Yes! Simply follow this link to "The URL-minder: Your Own Personal Web
- Robot!"
-
- http://www.netmind.com/URL-minder/URL-minder.html
-
- and register the following ftp URL:
-
- ftp://ftp.rahul.net/pub/kenton/faqs/Motif-FAQ (text version)
- or
- ftp://ftp.rahul.net/pub/kenton/faqs/Motif-FAQ.html (HTML version)
-
- This free service is brought to you by Netmind at:
-
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- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 9) Is this FAQ accessible via WWW?
- [Last modified: Apr 98]
-
- Answer: You can access the HTML version of this FAQ from my web site, either
- uncompressed (600KB) or compressed (180KB):
-
- ftp://ftp.rahul.net/pub/kenton/faqs/Motif-FAQ.html
- ftp://ftp.rahul.net/pub/kenton/faqs/Motif-FAQ.html.gz
-
- A list of other web sites (including mirror sites around the world) carrying
- text and HTML versions of this FAQ is available at:
-
- http://www.rahul.net/kenton/mfaq.html
-
- Ken Lee
-
- Thanks to Greg Ercolano (erco@netcom.com) for providing an awk script that
- converts my Motif FAQ to HTML.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 10)* Is this newsgroup archived?
- [Last modified: Nov 98]
-
- Answer: http://www.google.com/ archives several years of Usenet traffic.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 11) TOPIC: OSF, MOTIF VERSIONS, CDE, COSE, DCE, The OPEN GROUP
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 12) How can I contact the Open Group?
- [Last modified: Aug 97]
-
- Answer: For more information on the Open Group, including a list of e-mail and
- telephone contacts, see their WWW home page:
-
- http://www.opengroup.org/
-
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 13) Where can I find OSF press releases on Motif and DCE?
- [Last modified: May 97]
-
- Answer: The Open Group web page:
-
- http://www.rdg.opengroup.org/press/titles.htm
-
- contains Motif and DCE press releases dating back to August, 1996.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 14)* What versions of Motif are there?
- [Last modified: Jan 02]
-
- Answer: Motif 1.0 is based on the R3 toolkit. There are patch releases to
- 1.0: 1.0.1, 1.0.A, 1.0.2 and 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5. 1.0.A was a fairly major
- patch, as it involved a complete re-engineering of UIL and Mrm. Almost
- everyone who has 1.0.x has either 1.0.A or 1.0.3.
-
- Motif 1.1 is based on the R4 toolkit. The intial version was Motif 1.1.0.
- Motif 1.1.1 has been released as a patch to licensees with Full Support or
- Technical Update service. Motif 1.1.2 is a patch release which contains the
- necessary changes to fix over 80 bugs reported against Motif. It is available
- to support contract holders (including both full support and update service).
- The 1.1.3 release fixed a further 150 bugs and was available from August 1991
- to support contract holders (including both full support and update service).
- 1.1.4 offers X11R5 support, but is not an X11R5 product. 1.1.5 was released
- in June 92 to licensees who hold a Motif Full Support or Update Support
- contract
-
- Motif 1.2.0 was released in April 1992 and is based on the X11R5 toolkit. It
- offers increased compatibility with international standards, PC-style
- behavior and binary compatibility with Motif 1.1 applications. New features
- include drag-and-drop, tear- off menus, toolkit enhancements and new
- documentation. toolkit. The code is totally ANSI C.
-
- Motif 1.2.1 was released September, 1992. Due to an optimisation from 1.2.0
- to 1.2.1 object code compiled under 1.2.1 (that is, using 1.2.1 header files)
- will not link with 1.2.0 libraries (and, very probably, clients that use
- shared libraries and are linked against 1.2.1 won't startup against 1.2).
-
- Motif 1.2.2 was released March, 1993. This release contains over 250 bug
- fixes, improved text, drag-and-drop features and has less than one reported
- defect per 1000 lines of code.
-
- from dbrooks@osf.org Motif 1.2.3 was released on September 13, 1993. The
- defect density is measured at < 0.8 known reports per thousand lines. In this
- release, we have paid particular attention to memory leaks, and have improved
- drag-and-drop performance greatly.
-
- Motif 1.2.4 was released April, 1994. from the OSF README: This patch release
- contains approximately 240 bug fixes for Motif 1.2. The number of CRs resolved
- in this release is about 330....Apart from the 64-bit changes, all changes
- made in this release are fixes for reported bugs.
-
- Motif 2.0 was released in August, 1994. For details, see the questions "Is
- there a concise features list for Motif 2.0?" and "What are the details about
- new features in Motif 2.0?" Due to binary compatibility problems, this
- release was not very popular with UNIX vendors.
-
- Motif 1.2.5 was released June 15, 1995 ONLY to OSF Motif Support Licensees as
- part of their maintenance agreement. Motif 1.2.5 includes minor enhancements
- to support CDE 1.0. Vendors not supporting CDE generally ignored this release
- and continued to use Motif 1.2.4.
-
- Motif 2.1 was released February 5, 1997. For details, see the questions "Is
- there a concise features list for Motif 2.1?"
-
- Open Motif 2.2 was released January 29, 2002. For details, see the questions
- "Is there a concise features list for Motif 2.2?"
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 15)* How can I find which version of Motif I have? Xlib or Xt
- version?
- [Last modified: Jan 02]
-
- Answer: The macro XmVERSION gives you the version number. The macro
- XmREVISION gives you the major revision number. The macro XmVersion combines
- these e.g. a value of 1002 is Motif 1.2. In Motif 1.2, the macro
- XmUPDATE_LEVEL was added to give the minor revision number (also known as the
- patch level).
-
- To find the version of a compiled Motif library:
-
- grep XmVERSION_STRING libXm.a
-
- To find the Motif version at run-time, use the global variable:
-
- xmUseVersion
-
- Ken Lee adds the following for determining the Xlib and Xt version:
-
- X11/Xlib.h should have macros like this:
- #define XlibSpecificationRelease 6
- meaning X11R6.
-
- Similarly, X11/Intrinsic.h has this in X11R6:
- #define XtSpecificationRelease 6
-
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 16) Is there a concise features list for Motif 2.0?
- [Last modified: Sept 94]
-
- Answer:
-
- New widgets
-
- ComboBox.
- Notebook.
- Container/IconGadget.
- SpinBox.
- CSText.
-
- New features
-
- Thermometer Scale and tic marks.
- ScrollBar sliding/arrow and snapback modes.
- ScrolledWindow autoscroll and childType.
- Toggle indeterminate state and new visual.
- Colors in Gadgets.
- XmIm API for I18N.
- XmNlayoutDirection resource everywhere.
- Natural UnitType conversion syntax.
- XPM3 (colored icon) format support.
- The Uniform Transfer Model.
- General Rendition attributes in XmString (color, multiple fonts, etc)
- Several Display resources for CDE visual/behavior compatibility.
- New FileSelectionBox mode (again from CDE).
- Quick navigate in List.
- Oriented PanedWindow.
- Popup menus support.
- and much more...
-
- Extensibility
-
- Traits.
- C++ foundry.
- Widget writer doc.
- Exm widget source examples.
- Xme API (useful _Xm).
-
- Desktop
-
- Virtual MWM.
- Workspace Manager.
- TearOff menu in MWM.
- Client Command Interface.
- Colored icon pixmaps (from Xm).
-
- Performance & Quality
-
- No known Memory Leaks.
- XmString sharing.
- XmList creation/setup speedup.
- GC usage improved.
- Malloc/free usage.
- Bitmap allowed for pixmap resources.
- XmManager no longer blindly selects for PointerMotion
- XmFileSelectionBox better stat cache.
- Broader use of Hash tables.
- Better link profile (Trait + remodularization).
- X11R6 unofficial support.
- Hundreds of bug fixes.
-
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 17) What are the details about new features in Motif 2.0?
- [Last modified: Aug 97]
-
- Answer: (See the previous question for a more compact features list.)
-
- NOTE: This is a posting by Douglas Rand that was composed by
- one of the OSF business managers, Darrell Crow (crow@osf.org).
- OSF also published a nice technical overview in the X Journal.
- A copy of that report is available on-line at:
- http://www.opengroup.org/tech/desktop/motif/xjournal.htm
-
- Date: 11 Jul 94 15:49:27 GMT
- From: (Douglas Rand)
- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- Subject: Motif 2.0 announcement
- To: uunet!lobo.gsfc.nasa.gov!motif
-
- The following was composed by one of our business managers, Darrell Crow
- (crow@osf.org), questions may be directed to him.
-
- ----------------------------------------
-
- With this posting I hope to answer many questions I've been receiving
- regarding what is in Motif 2.0 and how does if differ from Release 1.2. This
- posting contains an overview followed by a bullet item listing of the features
- and benefits added to Motif in this release. If I didn't answer your questions
- feel free to direct them to me. At the end, I'll list additional
- documentation available from OSF. If you're also interested in the licensing
- and pricing information you can also contact me or the official OSF/Motif
- channel: direct@osf.org. I hope that this information update is of benefit to
- you.
-
- OSF/Motif has become the major Graphical User Interface (GUI) technology for
- Open Systems, as well as an IEEE 1295 standard. On Tuesday, June 21, OSF
- announced its next major release of OSF/Motif, Release 2.0. This release,
- which is the most extensive and colaborative release of Motif since Motif 1.0
- was introduced five years ago, includes new features organized around four
- major themes:
- I. Extensibility,
- 2. Consistency,
- 3. Improvements and
- 4. CDE Convergence.
-
- Motif 2.0 was a collaborative development effort. Contributors to this
- release include Lotus Development, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Digital Equipment,
- Integrated Computer Solutions, Computer Automation, Groupe Bull, HaL Computer
- Systems and Unix Systems Laboratories.
-
- This release had the goal of allowing developers to easily build new widgets
- and with support for C++ . This required new extensible features such as
- subclassing, traits, C++ support and detailed documentation. Like all Xt-
- based toolkits, subclassing requires detailed knowledge, experience and access
- to the source code to fully understand Motif's class methods. Motif 2.0
- simplified this process by providing extensive documentation and allowing
- subclassing from the Primitive and Manager classes without requiring access to
- source code. Documentation of Motif's class methods are included in a new
- book, The OSF/Motif Widget Writer's Guide. This book provides all necessary
- information to subclass from Primitive and Manager and numerous examples of
- subclassing are provided. Traits are a new feature with Motif 2.0 which
- essentially allow a given behaviour to be associated to a widget irrespective
- of the widget hierarchial relationships. The number of applications developped
- in C++ is rapidly growing and C++ programmers are now able to derive new
- subclasses and still have those C++ widgets usable as regular widgets with the
- standard API in Motif 2.0
-
- CDE (Common Desktop Environment) convergence. The previous version of
- OSF/Motif (Release 1.2) introduced major new features such as
- internationalization, drag-and-drop and tear-off menus. Those features were
- intended to allow application developers to produce interoperable, easy to use
- applications for a worldwide market. As a result, this technology was selected
- to become the basis of the Common Desktop Environment jointly developed by HP,
- IBM, Novell and SunSoft, proposed to become an X/Open standard. These features
- as well as the GUI extensions added to the CDE specifications have been added
- to Release 2.0.
-
- PC Consistency has been a major theme of this release. This includes
- improvements and completions to the toolkit that was begun with Motif 1.2 as
- well as the addition of seven new widgets (Container, Notebook, icon gadget,
- spinbox, combobox, CSText and thermometer) common to this environment and
- finally a new Style Guide. Extensive work has been expended to ensure the
- convergence of the Windows, CUA, CDE and Motif style both in technology and
- terminology into a single document. The work for this book will be submitted
- to the X/Open Fast Track process for incorporation into the X/Open set of
- specifications.
-
- Improvements to the OSF/Motif toolkit are far too numerous to adequately list
- here. However a brief mention of a few of the major improvements includes the
- addition of the Unified Transfer Model that simplifies data transfer by all
- Motif's previous methods, XPM support (ability to read colored icon file for
- pixmap resources), ScrolledWindow partial scroll and autodrag,Toggle
- checkmark, indeterminate state, documenting the input methods API for
- internationalization, upgrading UIL to support 64-bit architecture, platform
- independence, and support of the new extensibility features and widgets, and
- finally the Motif Window Manager support of virtual screen, workspace
- management protocol and root menu additions and etc.
-
- This release brings together the most requested features from development
- community with the single purpose of extending application developers' mission
- of producing portable, consistent and interoperable applications to the open
- systems community.
-
- Listing of the OSF/MotifR 2.0 Features and Benefits
-
- I. MORE EFFICIENT APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
-
- Easier application development to meet new business opportunities and deploy
- applications faster...
-
- Benefit Allows easier extensions to Motif for custom user
-
-
- Features:
- * New, formal Xme API for integrating custom widgets interfaces,
- without access to Motif source code
- * All extensions using Xme API are "full citizens"
- * Widgets may be added to off-the-shelf Motif products, without
- recompiling Motif source code
- * Manager and primitive widget subclassing
- * C++ base classes provided for C++ widget development
- * C++ is used for inheritance, but X intrinsics are used for other
- characteristics
- * Trait mechanism for OSF/Motif widgets, allowing "multiple
- inheritance" of C class methods
- * Extensibility fully documented in Widget Writer's Guide, and
- Reference documentation
- * New OSF training: Widget Writing with Motif 2.0
- * Examples of custom widgets in C and C++
-
- Feature:
- Makes it easier for C++ developers to use Motif
-
- Benefit:
- * Motif source code compilable by C++ compiler
- * Ability to integrate C++ widget extensions (above)
-
- Feature:
- Allows easier exploitation of Motif features for end user benefits
-
- Benefit:
- XmNotebook
- * Subclass of XmManager
- * Organizes children into pages, tabs, status area and page scroller
- XmContainer
- * Subclass of XmManager
- * Manages IconGadget children
- XmIconGadget
- XmComboBox
- * Subclass of XmManager
- * Combines capabilities of a single line
- XmTextField and XmList
- XmSpinBox
- * Subclass of XmManager
- * Manages multiple traversable children
- XmScale (thermometer) widget
- * Subclass of XmManager
- * New resources added for thermometer behavior
- XmCSText
- * Subclass of XmPrimitive
- * Provides facilities which parallel XmText, but using XmString
-
- Uniform transfer model for primary transfer,
- * secondary transfer, cut and paste, drag and drop
- Uniform API (with backward compatibility)
- 2 new callback functions for target identifcation
-
- Misc. toolkit enhancements:
- * Menu system
- Simplified programming of popup menus
- Source code reorganization
- * X pix map (XPM) format, with multicolor icons
-
- Misc. toolkit enhancements (continued):
- * New rendering characteristics for XmString:
- renditions (fonts, color), tabs, localization
- components, parsing
- * List -- Quick navigate
- * Traversal -- drawing area traversable via keys,
- virtual key associated with multiple real keys
- * Visuals (in addition to Toggle Button)
- * XmScreen resources
- * Resolution independence -- unit conversion
-
- UIL enhancements:
- * Support for new and custom widgets
- * UID files -- platform independence
- * 64-bit architecture support
-
- Updates to documentation: Programmer's Guide, Reference
-
- Updates to OSF training:
- * Introduction to Programming
- * User Interface Design
- * 2.0 Technical Update
-
- Feature:
- Allows easy integration of applications with Common Desktop
- Environment (CDE)
-
- Benefit:
- * Contains foundation GUI for CDE
- * Client-command interface allowing other clients to add commands to
- MWM menus
-
- Feature:
- Allows easy migration of applications to Motif 2.0
-
- Benefit
- * Upward binary compatibility of Motif 1.2 toolkit API
- (Motif 1.2 applications need only re-link)
-
- Feature
- Makes applications easier to troubleshoot & maintain
-
- Benefit
- * Overall quality improvements in Motif
- * Default density lower than 0.5 DPKLOC
-
- EASE OF USE
-
- Ease of use by individual computer users... at the application user
- interface level...
-
- Feature:
- Satisfies rising user expectations for ease of use, leveraging
- experience with other user interfaces
-
- Benefit:
- User interface capabilities equivalent to those on PCs:
- * Notebook widget
- * Container widget
- * ComboBox widget
- * SpinBox widget
- * Scale (thermometer) widget
- * Availability of formatted editable text
- Compound String text widget
- Compound String enhancements to support color, tabs, multiple
- fonts, etc.
- * Auto Scrolling
- * Vertical Paned Window
- * Update to User Guide
-
- Ease of use by individual computer users... at the desktop level...
-
- Feature:
- Allows easier integration with the desktop
-
- Benefit:
- * Contains foundation GUI for Common Desktop Environment (CDE)
- * Tear-off menu support of mwm's root menu
-
- Feature:
- Allows more natural organization of users' work
-
- Benefits:
- * Virtual screen (desktop panning) support
- * Workspace management protocol
- (for third party workspace management solutions that
- allow users to switch computing context "rooms" for
- different tasks)
-
- EASE OF ENTERPRISE COMPUTING
-
- Easier integration of Motif and Motif applications into the
- enterprise computing environment...
-
- Feature:
- Increases consistency of user interface style across platforms &
- applications; increases user skill portability
-
- Benefits:
- * Motif 2.0 Style Guide work Technical and terminology convergence
- among Motif, CDE and CUA
- * New widget support of converged style
- * Increased similarity to Windows & CUA behavior:
- Check marks and crosses in Toggle Button
- Indeterminate state in Toggle Button
- Ctrl Button 1 takes focus
- Menu unpost behavior
- Quick navigate in list
-
- Feature:
- Increases consistency of a complete user environment across open
- systems
-
- Benefits:
- * Consistency with the X/Open CDE specification, including virtually
- all CDE Motif vendor extensions:
- XmCascadeButton activation via BMenu
- Enhanced XmFileSelectionBox
- Default XmNshadowThickness to 1
- Thermometer-style XmScale
- Color pixmaps in XPM format
- Additional virtual key bindings
- SpinBox, ComboBox
- Message catalogs for toolkit error messages
- Other items controlled by a global resource:
- ColorObject (standarizes colormap allocation for
- applications, to enable use of Style Manager application)
- BSelect and BTransfer integration
- Dragging non-selectable items disabled
- Use of TAB key -- XmPushButton navigation
- Visual additions to XmToggleButton
- Visual modifications to menus (etched in)
- Visual modifications to default button in dialogs (focus
- highlight outside of default visual)
- Visual modifications to MWM
- Additional drag icons
- * Compliance with IEEE 1295 standard
- * Consistency of Motif vendor implementations:
- AES Rev D for API stability
- Validation Test Suite 2.0 for certification
- Updated Quality Assurance Test Suite for consistency in
- quality
- * Continued support of the X Window system (based on
- * X11R5; tested also with X11R6 )
-
- Feature:
- Ease of integrating Motif and PC environments
-
- Benefits:
- * Favorable licensing terms to support:
- PC client-server computing
- Deployment of PC applications using Motif DLLs
- * Style convergence to support hybrid user environments
-
-
- WORLD-WIDE ACCEPTANCE
-
- Even more acceptable as the preferred user interface for Open Systems,
- worldwide...
-
- Feature
- Applicable to a wider range of computer users
-
- Benefits:
- * Internationalization enhancements:
- New API for widget writers to make use of input methods
- Higher level of internationalization for Middle Eastern
- languages:
- Bi-directional layout -- left-to-right/right-to-left geometry
- management
- Bi-directional text editing -- left-to-right/right-to-left,
- single level (unsupported)
- * 64-bit architecture support
- * Favorable licensing terms to support:
- Single user systems
- Embedded systems
- Cross-vendor Motif upgrades
- Shared library distribution with applications
- * Performance
- Memory usage
- Start-up time, for list widget
- Decreased X resource usage
- Various optimizations
-
- ADDITIONAL AVAILABLE DOCUMENTS FROM OSF.
- OSF/Motif 2.0 Datasheet
- OSF/Motif 2.0 Price List
- OSF/Motif 2.0 Licensing Kit
- OSF/Motif 2.0 Laymen's Explanation
- OSF/Motif 2.0 FAQ
- X/Journal July-August Feature Article on Motif 2.0
-
- FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT OSF/MOTIF 2.0, PLEASE CONTACT OSF DIRECT CHANNELS
- AT: (617)621-7300; email: direct@osf.org
-
- OSF and Motif are registered trademarks of the Open Software Foundation, Inc.
-
- [end of message from Darrell Crow (crow@osf.org)]
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- Subject: 18) Is there a concise features list for Motif 2.1?
- [Last modified: Aug 97]
-
- Answer: The Open Group's press release for Motif 2.1 is available at:
- http://www.rdg.opengroup.org/press/5feb97.htm
-
- A technical report is also available at:
- http://www.opengroup.org/tech/desktop/motif/motif.data.sheet.htm
-
- The major differences from Motif 2.0 are:
-
- 1) The CS text widget from Motif 2.0 is not included.
-
- 2) Motif 2.0 word-size independent UID files are no longer supported. Only
- the Motif 1.2 word-size dependent format is supported.
-
- 3) To promote convergence with dtwm, mwm's panning, virtual screen, and
- workspace features have been removed
-
- 4) Support was added for the X print server, including a new print dialog
- widget
-
- 5) The Motif libraries are now thread-safe (if the underlying libraries and
- system are also thread-safe)
-
- 6) Several internationalization features were added, including an on-the-spot
- input method and vertical text writing
-
- 7) Motif 2.1 is based on X11R6.2 and will work properly with X11R6.3
-
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- Subject: 19)+ Is there a concise features list for Motif 2.2?
- [Last modified: Jan 02]
-
- Answer: The Open Group's press release for Open Motif 2.2 is available at:
-
- http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/openmotif-2.2.html
-
- OpenMotif 2.2 updates OpenMotif 2.1.30. The major change is the addition of
- 10 new widgets:
-
- 1) XmButtonBox
- 2) XmColorSelector
- 3) XmColumn
- 4) XmDataField
- 5) XmExt18List
- 6) XmFontSelector
- 7) XmIconBox
- 8) XmIconButton
- 9) XmTabStack
- 10) XmTree
-
- In addition, a ToolTips feature is implemented within the XmPrimitive and
- XmGadget classes.
-
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- END OF PART ONE
-