UIM/X Advanced Topics:
Customizing and Extending UIM/X

Course Length: 2 Days

Key Objectives

• Become immediately effec tive extending the use of UIM/X for your project.
• Learn how to adapt the appearance of UIM/X for your development team's specific productivity needs.
• Understand how to handle Compound Resources within UIM/X .
• Gain experience adding CustomWidgets to UIM/X and use of the complex sup port provided by the tool.
• Gain first hand experience integrating Custom Compound Editors and Resource Editors to support newly integrated widgets.

Course Overview

This course exposes the UIM/X developer to the tool's customization, widget integration, and advanced object oriented capabilities. With sixty percent hands-on time, the developer is led through several projects, building confidence in these complex topics.

Audience

This course is designed for serious UIM/X developers and project leaders desiring the most powerful capabilities of the tool. Those with complex X Window System application issues or those adding widgets augmenting the standard OSF/ Motif widget set would benefit the most.

Prerequisite

• UIM/X 2.5

• Competence with the OSF/Motif widget set

Course Content

Customizing UIM/X Appearance

• Project Window
• Browser Window
• Property Window
• Palette

Compound Resources

• Identification and Description
• Precedence
• Transparency

Visual Edge Object System (VEOS)

• Overview
• Data Structures
• swidget Classifications

Setting Widget Resource Value Ranges

• Option Menus
• Input Validation/Routine
• Constrained Default Values

Integrating Widgets

• swidget Class Source Files
• Defining New X-types
• Building UIM/X
• Extending uxcgen
• Extending libuimx.a

Integrating Custom Compound Editors

• Construction the editor
• Accessing swidget Initial Expressions
• Changing swidget Initial Expressions
• Adding Observers

Integrating Custom Resource Editors

• Resource Editor Protocol
• Registering Resource Editors