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The Common Desktop Environment: Programmer's Overview has two parts. Part 1 contains an architectural overview of the Common Desktop Environment, including high-level information on both the run-time and development environments. Part 2 contains information useful to know before developing an application, and describes the development environment components.

The Common Desktop Environment: Programmer's Overview provides a high-level view of the Common Desktop Environment development environment and the developer documentation set. Read this book first before starting application design and development.

The Common Desktop Environment: Style Guide and Certification Checklist provides application design style guidelines and the list of requirements for Common Desktop Environment application-level certification. These requirements consist of the Motif Version 1.2 requirements with Common Desktop Environment-specific additions.

The checklist describes keys using a model keyboard mechanism. It assumes that your application is being designed for a left-to-right language environment in an English-language locale. Wherever keyboard input is specified, the keys are indicated by the engravings on the Motif model keyboard. Mouse buttons are represented using a virtual button mechanism to specify behavior independent of the number of buttons on the mouse.

This book provides information to assist the application designer in developing consistent applications and behaviors within the applications.

The Common Desktop Environment: Help System Author's and Programmer's Guide describes how to develop online help for application software. It covers how to create help topics and integrate online help into a Motif application.

The audience for this book includes:

This book has four parts. Part1 describes the collaborative role that authors and developers undertake to design application help. Part 2 provides information for authors organizing and writing online help. Part 3 describes the Help System application programmer's toolkit. Part 4 contains information for both authors and programmers about preparing online help for different language environments.

The Common Desktop Environment: ToolTalk Messaging Overview describes the ToolTalk components, commands, and error messages offered as convenience routines to enable your application to conform to Media Exchange and Desktop Services message set conventions. This manual is for developers who create or maintain applications that use the ToolTalk® service to interoperate with other applications.

The ToolTalk Messaging Overview does not describe general ToolTalk functionality. For detailed information about the ToolTalk service, refer to The ToolTalk Service: An Inter-Operability Solution. For tips and techniques to help make using ToolTalk easier, read ToolTalk and Open Protocols: Inter-Application Communication.

The Common Desktop Environment: Internationalization Programmer's Guide provides information for internationalizing an application so that it can be easily localized to support various languages and cultural conventions in a consistent user interface.

Specifically, this guide:

This guide is not intended to duplicate the existing reference or conceptual documentation, but rather to provide guidelines and conventions on specific internationalization topics. It focuses on internationalization topics and not on any specific component or layer in an open software environment.

The Common Desktop Environment: Desktop Korn Shell User's Guide describes how to create Motif applications with Desktop Korn Shell (dtksh) scripts. It contains several example scripts of increasing complexity, in addition to the basic information a developer needs to get started.

This guide is intended for developers who find a shell-style scripting environment suitable for a particular task. It assumes a knowledge of Korn Shell programming, Motif, the Xt Intrinsics, and, to a lesser extent, Xlib.

The Common Desktop Environment: Glossary provides a comprehensive list of terms used in the Common Desktop Environment. The Glossary is the source and reference base for all users of the desktop. Because the audience for this glossary consists of many different types of users—from end users to developers to translators—the format for a glossary definition may include information about the audience, where the term originated, and the Common Desktop Environment component that uses the term in its graphical user interface.