Questions tagged [motif]

a graphical user interface toolkit used in software development

Motif is one of the first X toolkits, a sucessor of the Athena Widgets (Xaw).

Some resources include:

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No realize class procedure defined

I just want to share how I found the solution to the error No realize class procedure defined when running a X/Motif C application. I am posting this because I only found one reference to this problem while searching online, and it contained no…
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MOTIF compiling error / X11/intrinsic.h missing

i have MOTIF installed X11 a easy program is saved as hello.c there is the following message where can i get the X11/intrinsic.h , file ??? need help to compile my system : MX-16 Linux Debian Jessie / i386 Code: hans@mx1:~/Documents $ cc push.c -o…
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Locale-specific XFontSet expansion

In my Motif application (source code is here, requires Motif 2.1+ (-lXm -lXt -lX11) and a C99-compliant compiler; on Cygwin should be additionally linked with -liconv), I'm trying to get an XFontSet instance converted from an encoding-agnostic XLFD…
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Embed an app into a window

FvwmButtons (a module of fvwm window manager) has the Swallow function, that embeds the window of an application into a panel. I have to do something like this with Motif and Xlib. I want to embed an Xclock into my application. I guess I have to…
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Integrating XCB and libX11 event loops - hanging on select/poll inside Xt

I am trying to integrate two bodies of code into the same process that each previously had independent event loops for their respective GUI toolkits - one of them using Xt, and the other using Qt5. The intention is just to be able to display Qt…
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How to change Motif theme in DDD and Insight to something more pleasant?

I have Tk version 8.5.3 installed, theming engine support added since 8.5. Still, I don't know how to use themes, default Motif is just ugly: Screenshot
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Disable Motif Drag&Drop functionality

I have developed an application in X/Motif that has a performance issue related with the standard Drag&Drop functionality supplied by the toolkit. I have already disabled the Drag&Drop protocol at the level of the user interface by setting the…
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What happens if you ignore a X11 BadWindow error?

I have a legacy Motif application written in the early 1990s (I can't rewrite the UI in QT or even modify the app extensively without going through a time consuming safety assessment). This app used to run on AIX where it ran for weeks on end under…
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Need some advice about migrating from Motif to Gtk

I'm doing a project about migrating a legacy GUI program from Motif to Gtk. The source code is quite long (about 80k lines). Now I have two plans: Simply find the corresponding relationships bewteen the Motif functions and Gtk's. Then write some…
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OpenGL SuperSampling Anti-Aliasing?

At office we're working with an old GLX/Motif software that uses OpenGL's AccumulationBuffer to implement anti-aliasing for saving images. Our problem is that Apple removed the AccumulationBuffer from all of its drivers (starting from OS X 10.7.5),…
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How to integrate WebKit into legacy Motif application

We have a large and complex legacy Motif application into which we would like to integrate the WebKit (http://trac.webkit.org/wiki). I'm not aware of a Motif port of the WebKit (at least didn't find one), but found that it works with Qt, which has…
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Perl bindings for Motif Widget Toolkit

I'm a Motif programmer. I usually write in C, but I decided to try some higher-level languages. I tried some C++ bindings, but I realized I don't like that language. For non GUI programming, I always use Perl, but I didn't found any Motif binding…
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Porting Motif, From AIX to RHEL 6.1

This is my question here, but it seemed a better place then on motifzone -- their last post was over a year ago. I am tasked with porting a ~150k line application from AIX 5.3L to RHEL 6.1 I am running Motif 2.1 on AIX, and OpenMotif 2.1.32(same…
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Motif programming and UTF-8

I'm new to Motif programming and I want to use UTF-8 encoding. I've tried XtSetLanguageProc (NULL, NULL, NULL); but when I read a file in Motif (editor text-like in 6A volume motif programming), I've got problems with accented characters. I had to…
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What is the right way of building a long scroll list of button widgets in Motif?

I'm dealing with an old Motif application that needs to load and display a long list of entries (around 1500). It creates and manages an instance of xmFormWidgetClass via XtVaCreateManagedWidget() and then it stuffs it with a bunch of linear…
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