Common Desktop Environment: Application Builder User's Guide

This book introduces the Application Builder and shows you how to use it. The Application Builder is an interactive tool for developing applications. This tool provides features that facilitate both the construction of an application's graphical user interface and the incorporation of CDE's desktop services, including the Help System, ToolTalk messaging, drag and drop, and the Session Manager.

Common Desktop Environment: Desktop KornShell User's Guide

This book explains how to use the Desktop KornShell to create Motif applications. It introduces basic dtksh skills and provides several sample scripts. The samples are presented in order of increasing complexity so that you can gradually build your understanding of how dtksh works. The book also includes a list of the commands that are supported by dtksh and their syntaxes.

Common Desktop Environment: Help System Author's and Programmer's Guide

This book describes how to develop online help for Common Desktop Environment application software. The book explains how to create help topics and how authors and developers collaborate to integrate online help into a Motif application. For authors, this document is a step-by-step guide to creating and testing online help that can contain multiple text styles, graphics, and hyperlinks. For application developers, this document describes the Help System application programming interface that enables the application to invoke help topics. The book explains the help dialog widgets, how to respond to help requests, and how to navigate hyperlink data.

Common Desktop Environment: Internationalization Programmer's Guide

This book provides information for internationalizing an application so that it can support various languages and cultural conventions in a consistent user interface. This document contains guidelines and hints for developers on how to write applications for worldwide distribution. This book also includes an overall view of internationalization topics that span different layers within the desktop, and pointers to reference more detailed documentation.

Common Desktop Environment: Product Glossary

This book provides a comprehensive list of terms that are used in the Common Desktop Environment and is a resource and reference base for all users of CDE. Glossary definitions can include information about the audience, where the term originated, and the CDE component that uses the term in its graphical user interface. A preferred term is listed where appropriate.

Common Desktop Environment: Programmer's Overview

This book provides a high-level discussion of the CDE development environment and the developer documentation set. The book also contains an architectural overview of the entire CDE desktop.

Common Desktop Environment: Style Guide and Certification Checklist

This book provides application-design style guidelines and the list of requirements for Common Desktop Environment application-level certification. This document provides information to assist the application designer in developing consistent applications and behaviors within the applications. By default, this checklist assumes that your application is being designed for a left-to-right language environment in an English-language locale. These style requirements consist of the Motif 2.1 requirements with Solaris Common Desktop Environment-specific additions. Though Solaris 9 software predates the Open Group's CDE 2.1 standard, you can also consult the Style Guide Set that is published by the Open Group for additional style considerations.

Common Desktop Environment: ToolTalk Messaging Overview

This book describes the ToolTalk components, commands, and error messages that are offered as routines to enable your application to conform to the Media Exchange and Desktop Services message set conventions. This document is for developers who create or maintain applications that use the ToolTalk service to interoperate with other applications in the Common Desktop Environment.

Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Motif Transition Guide

This book addresses issues of concern to Sun Motif developers. Those issues include how to run existing OPEN LOOK and Motif applications on the OpenWindows and Solaris Common Desktop Environment desktops, and how to port OPEN LOOK and Motif applications to the Solaris CDE environment. This document assumes familiarity with OPEN LOOK or Motif programming.

Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Programmer's Guide

This book is for programmers who are interested in integrating an existing application into the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), or in developing a new application that uses the features and functionality of CDE. This book describes the CDE development environment, and assumes that you are familiar with Motif, X, UNIX, or C programming.

Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Advanced User's and System Administrator's Guide

This book explains the advanced tasks that are needed to customize the appearance and behavior of the Solaris Common Desktop Environment (CDE). The book includes chapters on customizing system initialization, login, session initiation, and adding applications and providing interface representations for applications and their data. Other topics include configuring desktop processes, applications, and data across the network; and customizing desktop services such as window management, printing, colors, and fonts.

Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User's Guide

This book describes the basic features of the Common Desktop Environment (CDE). This book also describes how to use the desktop and desktop applications.

Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User's Transition Guide

This book is for users who are making the transition from the OpenWindows environment to the Common Desktop Environment. The book discusses CDE as a graphical operating environment and, where helpful, identifies the differences in behavior between OpenWindows and CDE. The answers to frequently asked questions have been integrated into the relevant topics.

Korean Solaris Release Overview

This book summarizes the localized features of the Korean Solaris operating environment.

Korean Solaris System Administrator's Guide

This book provides system administration information specific to the Korean Solaris operating environment. The book also includes additional information that advanced users and developers can use to access and control features of the operating environment.

Korean Solaris User's Guide

This book describes the locale-specific desktop tools and user utilities that are provided by the Korean Solaris operating environment. These tools and utilities include Korean input methods, fonts, and printing.

Simplified Chinese Solaris Release Overview

This book summarizes the localized features of the Simplified Chinese Solaris operating environment.

Simplified Chinese Solaris System Administrator's Guide

This book provides system administration information specific to the Simplified Chinese Solaris operating environment. The book also includes additional information that advanced users and developers can use to access and control features of the operating environment.

Simplified Chinese Solaris User's Guide

This book describes the locale-specific desktop tools and user utilities that are provided by the Simplified Chinese Solaris operating environment. These tools and utilities include Simplified Chinese input methods, fonts, and printing.

Traditional Chinese Solaris Release Overview

This book summarizes the localized features of the Traditional Chinese Solaris operating environment.

Traditional Chinese Solaris System Administrator's Guide

This book provides system administration information specific to the Traditional Chinese Solaris operating environment. The book also includes additional information that advanced users and developers can use to access and control features of the operating environment.

Traditional Chinese Solaris User's Guide

This book describes the locale-specific desktop tools and user utilities that are provided by the Traditional Chinese Solaris operating environment. These tools and utilities include Traditional Chinese input methods, fonts, and printing.

man pages section 1: User Commands

This section describes the commands and utilities available with this operating system, including commands that are found only in the SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package. Also described are commands for communicating with other systems, commands associated with the Form and Menu Language Interpreter (FMLI), and commands specific to the SunOS™ system.

The available options, arguments, and operands for each command are provided in accordance with standard rules of command syntax. Also provided are availability attributes, diagnostic information, and cross-references to other document pages and reference material with relevant information.

This section is for all UNIX system users.

man pages section 1M: System Administration Commands

This section describes the Solaris system administration and maintenance utilities and is for system and network administrators.

man pages section 2: System Calls

This section describes the system calls. A system call is a C library function that requests kernel services. Readers of this section should be familiar with C programming language constructs.

man pages section 3: Basic Library Functions

This section describes the core library functions found in the standard C library (libc), the dynamic linking library (libdl), the SunOS/BSD compatibility library (libucb), and the various memory allocation libraries. Readers of this section should be familiar with C programming language constructs.

man pages section 3: Curses Library Functions

This section describes the functions in the libraries that provide graphics and character screen-updating capabilities. Those functions include the curses library (libcurses), the forms library (libform), the menus library (libmenu), the panels library (libpanel), and the graphics interface library (libplot). Readers of this section should be familiar with C programming language constructs.

man pages section 3: Extended Library Functions

This section describes the functions in the various specialized libraries. Those functions include device ID (libdevid) and device information (libdevinfo) libraries, executable and linking format (ELF) library (libelf), kernel statistics (libkstat) and kernel VM (libkvm) libraries, and the mathematical library (libm). Readers of this section should be familiar with C programming language constructs.

man pages section 3: Library Interfaces and Headers

This section describes the interface libraries that are implemented as shared objects and the headers that are used by the functions that make up these libraries. Headers contain function prototypes, definitions of symbolic constants, common structures, preprocessor macros, and defined types. Readers of this section should be familiar with C programming language constructs.

man pages section 3: Networking Library Functions

This section describes the functions in the various networking libraries. Those functions include the Kerberos library (libkrb), the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) library (libldap), the network service library (libnsl), and the remote asynchronous calls library (librac). Also included are the resolver library (libresolv), the remote procedure call libraries (librpcsvc and librpcsoc), the sockets library (libsocket), the X/Open Federated Naming (XFN) library (libxfn), and the X/Open network service library (libxnet). Readers of this section should be familiar with C programming language constructs.

man pages section 3: Threads and Realtime Library Functions

This section describes the functions in the threads libraries (libthread and libpthread), the real-time library (librt), and other related libraries. Readers of this section should be familiar with C programming language constructs.

man pages section 4: File Formats

This section outlines the formats of various files that include the C structure declarations where applicable. The headers that contain these structure declarations are generally found in the directories /usr/include or /usr/include/sys.

In the pages that outline the various library structures, both public and private interfaces are listed. A public interface provides a stable, committed set of symbols for application development. Private interfaces are for internal use only and can change at any time.

This section is for software developers.

man pages section 5: Standards, Environments, and Macros

This section describes miscellaneous subjects, including headers, environments, macro packages, character sets, and standards. These descriptions provide further elaboration on Solaris constructs that are described elsewhere in this section.

man pages section 6: Demos

This section describes audio and video games and demos that are provided by Solaris software.

man pages section 7: Device and Network Interfaces

This section describes the various device and network interfaces that are available on the system. The section includes descriptions of character and block devices, STREAMS modules, network protocols, file systems, and ioctl() requests for driver subsystems and classes.

This section is for software developers who write, maintain, or modify device drivers.

man pages section 9: DDI and DKI Driver Entry Points

This section describes entry-point routines a developer can use to provide call and return syntax from the kernel to the device driver.

This section is for software developers who write, modify, or maintain device drivers. Readers should be familiar with the C programming language as well as system internals.

man pages section 9: DDI and DKI Kernel Functions

This section describes functions a developer can use to provide call and return syntax from a device driver to the kernel.

This section is for software developers who write, modify, or maintain device drivers. Readers should be familiar with the C programming language as well as system internals.

man pages section 9: DDI and DKI Properties and Data Structures

Section 9P describes kernel properties that are used by device drivers. Section 9S describes the data structures that are used by drivers to share information between the kernel and device drivers.

These sections are for software developers who write, modify or maintain device drivers. Readers should be familiar with the C programming language as well as system internals.