Tutorials, Documentation, Links

# Links

Here we collect links to external (online) resources related to LessTif/Motif. We list tutorials, programming references as well as tools which are required to build the source distribution.

## Motif Tutorials

There are several Motif tutorials available on the net. We only list a couple of them here mostly located by using well-known search engines.

- devcentral.iftech.com
- www.comp.lancs.ac.uk

## Motif References

- Open Motif Documentation
  The documentation to OpenMotif if taken from this URL has reasonable license terms and conditions! So they're well worth the download (some big PDF files).
- SCO's Motif 1.2 docs
- Motif 2.1 manpages (among many others) from HP
- UIL Reference

## Misc Motif Information

- Ken Lee's home page has a large amount of information on Motif and X, and has lots of interesting links. Especially he's maintaining a comprehensive Motif FAQ.

- The Motif Zone is a web presence sponsored by ICS which covers Motif topics, and which contains a collection of articles (you'd call it a magazine if they had fixed release dates) about Motif in The Motif Developer. Articles currently seem to get added twice a month.

- Misc Motif docs from SGI Techpub's Library
  Make sure not to use SGI extensions to the library ...

- Harry's Motif Corner is Harald Albrecht's home page, which has a number of tips and tricks for Motif programmers. The best item he has of course is The Inside LessTif Book which is a professionally looking book with illustrations describing how LessTif works. You can print the book on any PostScript® printer.

- MW3 (Motif on the World Wide Web) is a giant collection of information about Motif. Contains lots of pointers to Motif compliant widgets, applications using Motif, etc. Unfortunately it hasn't been updated for some time now and contains broken links therefore. Recently the link itself seems even broken.

- Motifdeveloper is a successor to the MW3 site mentioned above.

- SCO has the Motif documentation for 1.2 online at uw7doc.sco.com. Using a search engine such as yahoo with a search term such as XmCreatePushButton will locate a bunch of other sites that make Motif documentation available.

## Motif Advocacy

- "Is Motif Dead? No Way!"
  An Interview with Antony Fountain, Co-author of Motif Reference Manual
- Discussion between Antony Fountain and Chris Wareham
  Followup to the interview mentioned above.

## General X11 Info

- Homepage of the X Window System
- Homepage of the XFree86 project (free X11 implementation)
- The Widget FAQ is a list of widgets, freely and commercially alike, some of which can be used easily with Motif or LessTif.
- Info about Imake

## Tools

The LessTif configuration and build process is based on the tools

- automake
- autoconf
- libtool

Ian Lance Taylor wrote a tutorial on these tools. This tutorial is not meant to replace the according reference manuals, it supplements them. It is now available at http://www.cygnus.com/~ian/configure/.