FW: O'Reilly Releases Updated Motif Reference Manual

[Brandon Gohsman]

Another book is up for review. Anyone?

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Subject: O'Reilly Releases Updated Motif Reference Manual


For immediate release
For free review copy, contact:
Denise Olliffe (707) 829-0515 ext 339, deniseo at oreilly.com

O'Reilly Releases Updated Motif Reference Manual

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 Motif widget set needs no
introduction: everyone using a UNIX-based X workstation will have
either used or programmed with it," says Antony Fountain, co-author of
the new volume. "The Motif widget set offers the most feature-complete
solution, and remains the best choice for standardized, large scale,
industrial strength, mission critical, and internationalized
applications."

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. "Motif 2.1 offers an extended range of
components which provide a consistent user interface, whether in terms
of overall appearance and behavior, inter-component navigability, or
data transfer. The components are rich in configurability, either from
the programmer or the user perspective," says Fountain. "No other
toolkit offers programmers greater power over the geometry management
of their programs."

This book is designed to be used with "Volume 6A, Motif Programming
Manual", which describes how to build applications using the Motif
toolkit and provides a complete tutorial with programming examples.
Both of these books are an integral part of the X Window System series
from O'Reilly.

What a reader said about the previous edition:  "This is a 'must get'
book for all the Motif programmers. Personally, I have bought several
Motif books before I purchased the 'Motif Programming Manual'. Just
forget others, and get this book to start with. The good points about
this book compared to other Motif books: Plenty more examples than
other books. For all programming standard, much more easy to read and
follow. You can learn much more from the examples than other books. A
very organized, efficient, and structural programming style. In
conclusion, you can learn not only to be 'a good Motif programmer', but
also 'to make full use of Motif."

Appendix D: New Features in Motif 2.1 and 2.0 is freely available
online at:  http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/motifref2/chapter/appd.html

For more information about the book, see:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/motifref2/

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ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/graphics/book_covers/hi-res/1565926544.jpg


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Volume 6B: Motif Reference Manual, 2nd Edition
For Motif 2.1
By Antony Fountain & Paula Ferguson
2nd Edition February 2000
1-56592-654-4, 1154 pages, $49.95
order at oreilly.com
1-800-998-9938
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