Paul E. Kimball
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Total reviews: 2
Average rating: 5.0 of 5
Excellent single volume reference for Xt / Motif developers. 5 out of 5 stars.
13 of 13 people found this review helpful.
This volume is meaty, thorough and useful. The overview material on the X Window System architecture is revealing in ways that the X documentation never was. The chapters on debugging and error handling alone were worth ten times the price of this book, and have significantly added to the robustness of our applications. We used this book in 1995 to support a Linux hosted Motif implementation - our first under X - and found this by far the most useful volume.
The detailed descriptions of the Motif widgets take a little navigating to start with, but are compact and useful descriptions of complex objects.
This book does not cover the new features of X11R6.3 (printing and other extensions) which were released after the book was published, but I look forward to a new edition that includes them.
While Kimball's book is not always an easy read, this is dictated by the complex subject matter, which he tackles with competence and completeness. Highly recommended.
Editorial Review:
This tutorial and reference provides application programmers working in X environments recipes that enables them to become quickly productive using any of the major X Toolkits, including OSF/Motif. The X Toolkit, a part of the X Window system from MIT, is a standard programming interface for building and manipulating user interface tools. It has a very steep learning curve and available material is geared toward those who aready understand it. Covers the latest release of the X Window System (X11R6). The author is a leading authority on the X Window system. Provides a set of tutorial examples which demonstrate the major features of X Toolkits — in the order in which they would be encountered in writing a real application. For software developers, application programmers, and interested users of commercial windows systems who want to know more about X Toolkits and how to use them in building applications.
