Motif Reference Manual - Volume Six B

ISBN  1-56592-654-4   Price  approximately £32  UK
Antony Fountain and Paula Ferguson
 3 Chapters, 4 Appendices and index in 1133 pages
 

Chapter List
 

1  Motif Functions and Macros
2  Motif and Xt Widget Classes
3  Motif Clients
Appendix A
     Function Summaries
Appendix B
    Data Types
Appendix C
    Table of Motif Resources
Appendix D
    New Features in Motif 2.1 and 2.0
Synopsis

        Motif was recently open sourced.  You migth want to learn more about it ? Before you get started on Volume Six B you should have already read Volume Six A.  Volume Six B is the update and it covers Motif 2.1

 
Review

        O'Reilly have once again produced an invaluable book which contains most of the information that you might be looking for.  It says in the Preface...

" What to put in and what to leave out of this update to the Motif Reference Manual was the hardest decision of all.  The guiding principle has ben to consider for whom this material is intended:  this book is a programmer's reference, not a widget author's handbook. "

Much of Volume Six B is concerned with Motif Functions and Macros.  This is all of chapter one and goes on for 600 pages.  So, you can imagine how thorough it really is ?   Motif and Xt Widget classes gives a very comprehensive guide to those classes and takes up a further 400 pages.  Motif clients goes on to give some useful info about shell environment variables used by the client.  Finally the appendices give useful summaries of little known facts.

If you want to get hold of this one make sure that you did buy Volume Six A ( didn't you ???  )

Review by  Richard Ibbotson