Preface

Preface
Prev		Next

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.

Prev	Table of Contents	Next
OSF/Motif Programmer's Reference		Reference Pages