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Preface
This is the reference manual for OSF/Motif commands and functions.
It contains toolkit, window manager, and user interface language commands
and functions.
Audience
This document is written for programmers who want to write applications using
Motif interfaces to use as a reference.
Typographic Conventions
This volume uses the following typographic conventions:
- Boldfaced strings represent literals; type them exactly
as they appear.
- Italicized strings represent variables (for example,
function or macro arguments).
- Ellipses (...) indicate that additional arguments are optional.
Manual Page Format
The manual pages in this volume use the following format:
- Purpose
- This section gives a short description of the interface.
- Synopsis
- This section describes the appropriate syntax for using the interface.
- Description
- This section describes the behavior of the interface. On widget
manual pages there are tables of resource values in the descriptions.
Those tables have the following headers:
- Name
- Contains the name of the resource.
Each new resource is described following
the new resources table.
- Class
- Contains the class of the resource.
- Type
- Contains the type of the resource.
- Default
- Contains the default value of the resource.
- Access
- Contains the access permissions for the resource.
A C in this column means the resource
can be set at widget creation time. An S
means the resource can be set anytime. A G
means the resource's value can retrieved.
- Examples
- This sections gives practical examples for using the interface.
- Return Value
- This lists the values returned by function interfaces.
- Errors
- This section describes the error conditions associated
with using this interface.
- Related Information
- This section provides cross-references to related
interfaces and header files described within this document.