Desktop Kornshell Graphical Programming (Professional Computing) (Hardcover)

Synopsis
The creator of Desktop KornShell (dtksh) details how to use the worldwide standard scripting language for creating Motif applications. As a part of the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), a uniform graphical user interface environment adopted by all the major UNIX companies including Sun, HP, IBM, DEC, and Novell, the Desktop KornShell is an essential tool for all serious UNIX programmers. This book provides you with a quick introduction to graphical programming and teaches you everything you need to know to create elegant, consistent graphical user interfaces using Desktop KornShell. Written by the creator of the original Desktop KornShell code, this definitive book includes an X Windows tutorial, a comprehensive reference, and a library of useful examples for building your graphical applications. You will learn the fundamentals of the X Window System, graphical programming concepts, and how to use the X interfaces to program the Desktop KornShell. There are more than 140 programming examples, each demonstrating a particular graphical programming technique; they are also available on Addison-Wesley's ftp site (ftp.aw.com).Also included is a real-life application developed throughout the course of the book to illustrate such interface elements as context-sensitive help, cascading menus, forms, window manager inter