Tutorials, Documentation, Links

# Links

Here we collect links to external (online) resources related to LessTif/Motif. We list tutorials, programming references as well as tools which are required to build the source distribution.

## Motif Tutorials

There are several Motif tutorials available on the net. We only give a small random selection of them here ...

- devcentral.iftech.com
- www.comp.lancs.ac.uk
- www.cm.cf.ac.uk

## Motif References

- Open Motif Documentation
  The documentation to OpenMotif if taken from this URL seems to have reasonable license terms and conditions different from those which apply for the source package! So they're well worth the download (some big PDF files).
- SCO's Motif 1.2 docs
- Motif 2.1 manpages (among many others) from HP
- UIL Reference

## Misc Motif Information

- Ken Lee's home page has a large amount of information on Motif and X, and has lots of interesting links. Especially he's maintaining a comprehensive Motif FAQ.
- The Motif Zone is a web presence sponsored by ICS which covers Motif topics, and which contains a collection of articles (you'd call it a magazine if they had fixed release dates) about Motif in The Motif Developer. Articles currently seem to get added twice a month.
- Misc Motif docs from SGI Techpub's Library
  Make sure not to use SGI extensions to the library ...
- Harry's Motif Corner is Harald Albrecht's home page, which has a number of tips and tricks for Motif programmers. The best item he has of course is The Inside LessTif Book which is a professionally looking book with illustrations describing how LessTif works. You can print the book on any PostScript® printer.
  The source package is also mirrored at ftp://ftp.hungry.com/pub/hungry/lesstif/docs/
- Motifdeveloper is a big collection of information about Motif. Contains lots of pointers to Motif compliant widgets, applications using Motif, etc.
- SCO has the Motif documentation for 1.2 online at uw7doc.sco.com. Using a search engine such as yahoo with a search term such as XmCreatePushButton will locate a bunch of other sites that make Motif documentation available.

## Motif Advocacy

- "Is Motif Dead? No Way!"
  An Interview with Antony Fountain, Co-author of Motif Reference Manual
- Discussion between Antony Fountain and Chris Wareham
  Followup to the interview mentioned above.

## General X11 Info

- Homepage of the X Window System
- Homepage of the XFree86 project (free X11 implementation)
- The Widget FAQ is a list of widgets, freely and commercially alike, some of which can be used easily with Motif or LessTif.
- Xlib Programming Manual
- Xt Programming Manual
- General X documentation, as provided by NEC (Super-UX) :
  - X Window System User's Guide
  - X Window System Programmer's Guide
  - Xlib Programming Manual
  - X Toolkit Intrinsics - C Language Interface
- Info about Imake

## Tools

The LessTif configuration and build process is based on the GNU tools

- automake
- autoconf
- libtool

Ian Lance Taylor wrote a tutorial on those tools. This document is not meant to replace the according reference manuals, it supplements them.