Motif Tools:
Streamlined GUI Design and Programming with the Xmt Library
By David Flanagan
1024 pages, ISBN: 1-56592-044-9, $55.00 (US)

New from O'Reilly, Motif Tools and the Xmt programming library that
accompanies it on CD-ROM offer resources to help Motif programmers
dramatically speed up application development with the X Toolkit and
Motif.

Here's what author David Flanagan has to say about why he was inspired to
write the book and the Xmt library:

"The need for a convenience toolkit is something that not enough
programmers and managers realize--Motif is too often viewed as a complete
GUI development package, when in fact it was designed only to provide a
standard base level of functionality. This is where the Xmt library comes
in; it provides many of the widgets and functions that are implemented
over and over again by developers. My aim was to put programmer
ease-of-use first (something the designers of Motif obviously did not do)
and create a library that really simplifies GUI development."

The Xmt library contains nine custom widgets and over 250 convenience
routines that handle many tricky aspects of GUI programming. The Layout
widget, for example, is a flexible manager widget that makes the confusing
and awkward Motif Form widget a thing of the past. And a single Menu
widget will create an entire pulldown menu system for your application by
reading a special menu description from a resource file or your C code.
Other features of the library simplify the use of Motif XmStrings,
automate the transfer of data between the fields of an application's data
structures and the widgets of its dialog boxes, and make it possible to
automatically create a widget hierarchy completely described in a resource
file.

Motif Tools is a comprehensive programmer's guide and reference manual for
the Xmt library.  It guides the reader through the development of a
complete application: from first conception, through design and
implementation, and on to the finishing stylistic touches--the myriad
little details that make the difference between an application that looks
sharp and one that just looks ordinary, between one that is a pleasure to
use and one that is just usable.

Scattered throughout the book, and collected on the CD, you will also find
programming tips and tidbits submitted by Motif programmers from around
the world. The book includes a single-programmer license to use the Xmt
library source code.  Additional licenses may be purchased at a nominal
cost.

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