This is the reference manual for OSF/Motif™ commands and functions. It contains toolkit, window manager, and user interface language commands and functions.
This document is written for programmers who want to write applications using Motif™ interfaces to use as a reference.
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.
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:
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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. |