UIMX for Non-Motif Programmers

Course Length: 5-7 Days

Please Note: This is an accelerated course that compresses a large amount of material into 5-7 days. Please contact your Bluestone representative before booking to ensure that this course is best suited to your needs.

Key Objectives

• Understand the underlying fundamentals of the X Window Xlib and Xt layers.
• Understand the Motif widget set and its API support routines.
• Understand how to use UIM/X for maximal GUI design and implementation efficiency.
• Exercise the Motif widgets using UIM/X and real-world examples.
• Appreciate design issues of efficiency and Style Guide compliance.

Course Overview

This course begins with a presentation of Xlib and Xt concepts essential for understanding the Motif widget set. Then, the widgets themselves are exercised using UIM/X in a series of progressively more complicated real-world examples. The lectures and labs build upon each other as the complete Motif widget set is presented. The elements of the Motif Application Programmer Interface (API) needed for robust GUIs. development are also included. Students progress all the way from the underlying fundamentals of Xlib to the what-you-see-is-what-you-get power of UIM/X , gaining a rock-solid foundation on which to build their own GUIs.

Audience

This course is designed for programmers, engineers, and managers needing a comprehensive understanding of how efficient and robust Motif-compliant GUIs are designed and built using UIM/X.

Prerequisites

• Advanced C Programming

• UNIX Fundamentals

• vi or emacs

Course Content

Xlib Concepts

• Client/Server Model and X Protocol
• Windows
• Color and Drawing Graphics
• Font and Drawing Text
• Events
• Pixmaps and Bitmaps
• Inter-Client Communications

Toolkit Concepts

• Widgets
• Widget Creation, Management, Realization
• Implicit and Explicit Event Loops
• Callbacks, Actions & Translations and Event Handlers
• Resources and Resource Files
• Timeout Functions, Work Procedures and Input Handlers

Basic UIM/X Concepts

• UIM/X Project Structure
• Rapid GUI Prototyping
• Property Editor
• Ux Convenience Library
• Declarations Editor
• Interpreter
• Program Layout Editor
• C and C++ Code Generation

Motif Concepts (Using UIM/X)

• Shell, Manager & Primitive Widget Classes
• Style Guide Compliant Interfaces
• Main Windows and Main Window Editor
• Menus and Menu Editor
• Controlling Multiple Interfaces (Shells)
• Interface Modality
• Information Lists and Compound Strings
• Data Entry Forms and Resizing Interfaces
• Keyboard Navigation
• Gadgets

Advanced UIM/X Concepts

• Corporate Style Guide Compliant Interfaces
• Palettes
• Object-Oriented Componenets & Methods
• UIM/X Context Structure & Multiple Instances of Interfaces
• Performance Issues