IRIX^® Interactive Desktop Integration Guide

Table of Contents

New Features in This Guide

Major Documentation Changes

About This Guide

What This Guide Contains

How to Use This Guide

What You Should Know Before Reading This Guide

Suggested Reading

Font Conventions in This Guide

Integrating an Application Into the IRIX Interactive Desktop Environment: An Introduction

About the IRIX Interactive Desktop Environment

Implementation Strategies and Toolkits

Integrating an Application

I. Getting the Right Look and Feel

1. Getting the Right Look and Feel: An Overview

About the IRIX Interactive Desktop Look and Feel

Getting the Right Look and Feel: The Basic Steps

2. Getting the IRIX Interactive Desktop Look

3. Using Schemes

Schemes Overview

Using Schemes in Your Application

Extending a Scheme to Support New Colors

Testing Your Application with Schemes

Creating New Schemes

Hard-Coding a Scheme for an Application

4. Using the SGI Enhanced Widgets

Using the SGI Enhanced Widgets

Using the Widget Demos

The Enhanced Widgets

The Mixed-Model Programming Widgets

The SGI Enhanced Widgets

HTML Viewer Component

5. Window, Session, and Desk Management

Window, Session, and Desk Management Overview

Implementing an Application Model

Interacting With the Window and Session Manager

6. Customizing Your Application's Minimized Windows

Some Different Sources for Minimized Window Images

Creating a Minimized Window Image: The Basic Steps

Setting the Minimized Window Label

Changing the Minimized Window Image

7. Interapplication Data Exchange

Data Exchange Overview

Implementing the Primary Transfer Model

Implementing the Clipboard Transfer Model

Supported Target Formats

Data Conversion Service

8. Monitoring Changes to Files and Directories

FAM Overview

The FAM Interface

Using FAM

9. Providing Online Help With SGIHelp

Overview of SGIHelp

The SGIHelp Interface

Implementing Help in an Application

Application Helpmap Files

Writing the Online Help

Producing the Final Product

Bibliography of SGML References

10. Handling Users' System Preferences

Handling the Mouse Double-Click Speed Setting

Using the Default Viewer and Editor Utilities Panel

II. Creating Desktop Icons

11. Creating Desktop Icons: An Overview

About IRIX Interactive Desktop Icons

Checklist for Creating an Icon

Creating an Icon: The Basic Steps Explained in Detail

12. Using IconSmith

About IconSmith

Where to Install Your Completed Icon

Some Definitions

Starting IconSmith

IconSmith Menus

IconSmith Windows

Drawing With IconSmith

Selecting

Transformations

Concave Polygons

Constraints: Gravity (Object) Snap and Grid Snap

Icon Design and Composition Conventions

Advanced IconSmith Techniques

13. File Typing Rules

A Table of the FTRs With Descriptions

Naming File Types: The TYPE Rule

Categorizing File Types: The SUPERTYPE Rule

Matching File Types With Applications: The MATCH Rule

Matching Non-Plain Files: The SPECIALFILE Rule

Adding a Descriptive Phrase: The LEGEND Rule

Setting FTR Variables: The SETVAR Rule

Programming Open Behavior: The CMD OPEN Rule

Programming Alt-Open Behavior: The CMD ALTOPEN Rule

Programming Drag and Drop Behavior: The CMD DROP and DROPIF Rules

Mapping Names: The MAP Rule

Programming Print Behavior: The CMD PRINT Rule

Adding Menu Items: The MENUCMD Rule

Getting the Icon Picture: The ICON Rule

Creating a File Type: An Example

14. Printing From the Desktop

About routeprint

Converting a File for Printing

The Print Conversion Rules

The Current Printer

A. Example Programs for SGI Enhanced Widgets

Example Program for Color Chooser

Example Program for Dial

Example Program for Drop Pocket

Example Program for Finder

Example Program for History Button (Dynamenu)

Example Program for ThumbWheel

Example Program for File Selection Box

Example Programs for Scale (Percent Done Indicator) Widget

Example Program for LED Widget

B. Desktop Variables

Variables Set By the Desktop

Variables Set By the User

C. Online Help Examples

A Simple Help Document

Allowable Elements in a Help Document

An Example of Implementing Help in an Application

D. The Icon Description Language

Operators 

Constants 

Variables 

Functions

E. Predefined File Types

Naming Conventions for Predefined File Types

The Predefined File Types and What They Do

F. FTR File Directories

G. Using GoldenGate Data Conversion Services

Converting Data Using the GoldenGate Data Conversion Service

Compiling and Linking Your Program with GoldenGate

Writing Converters for the GoldenGate Data Conversion Service

H. Standard Menu Resources

Common Menu Bar Resources

Standard File Menu Resources

Standard Edit Menu Resources

Index