The purpose of this guide is to explain how to create OSF/Motif compliant applications, window managers, controls, and systems.
The OSF/Motif Style Guide provides a framework of behavior specifications to guide application developers, widget developers, user interface system developers, and window manager developers in the design and implementation of new products consistent with the OSF/Motif user interface. This OSF/Motif Style Guide is also closely consistent with Microsoft Windows, Presentation Manager, and Common User Access (CUA).
The OSF/Motif Style Guide establishes a consistent behavior among new products by drawing out the common elements from a variety of current behavioral models. The OSF/Motif Style Guide anticipates the evolution of graphical user interfaces as new technology becomes available and as the use of the Motif user interface spreads. Behavioral guidelines will be added over time as they become stable.
For specific details of coding the implementation into an application program, widget, or window manager, see the other volumes of the OSF/Motif documentation set.
This document applies to Release 1.2 of the OSF/Motif software system.
If you have any problems with the software or documentation, please contact your software vendor's customer service department.