The XView Toolkit

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This chapter introduces the XView programmer’s toolkit, a part of the XView application programmer’s interface (API). It assumes you are familiar with XView windows as a user, and introduces XView from a programmer’s point of view. For details, see the XView Programming Manual by Dan Heller, O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1990.

The sections in this chapter are:

Overview

page 221

 

 

Pascal Interface

page 223

 

 

Conversion of C to Pascal

page 227

 

 

Sample Program

page 230

 

 

Note – Support for the XView toolkit will not be provided in future releases of

Pascal.

Overview

The XView API is an object-oriented, server-based, user-interface toolkit for the X Window System Version 11 (X11). It is designed and documented to help programmers manipulate XView windows and other XView objects. This chapter focuses on using it with Pascal.

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