LinuxPR: O’Reilly Releases Updated Motif Reference Manual

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 29, 2000

“O’Reilly & Associates has announced the 2nd Edition of
“Volume 6B, Motif Reference Manual”, a complete programmer’s
reference for the Motif toolkit.”

“Motif is the only native toolkit for Unix that supports large
scale internationalized applications. It provides a complete set of
widgets, such as buttons, scroll bars, menus, and dialog boxes, for
developing graphical user interfaces. It also includes a library of
functions for creating and manipulating those widgets.”

“The second edition of the “Motif Reference Manual” covers
Motif 2.1, a robust release supported by the major workstation
vendors,
including Sun (Solaris 2.7), HP, and SGI.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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