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Additional contributors to the design and/or implementation were: -</para> - -<sidebar> -<informaltable frame='none'> -<?dbfo keep-together="always" ?> - <tgroup cols='2' rowsep='0' colsep='0'> - <colspec colwidth='1.0*' /> - <colspec colwidth='1.0*' /> - <tbody> - <row><?dbfo row-height="0.2cm"?> - <entry>Loretta Guarino-Reid (Digital WSL)</entry> - <entry>Rich Hyde (Digital WSL)</entry> - </row> - <row><?dbfo row-height="0.2cm"?> - <entry>Susan Angebranndt (Digital WSL)</entry> - <entry>Terry Weissman (Digital WSL)</entry> - </row> - <row><?dbfo row-height="0.2cm"?> - <entry>Mary Larson (Digital UEG)</entry> - <entry>Mark Manasse (Digital SRC)</entry> - </row> - <row><?dbfo row-height="0.5cm"?> - <entry>Jim Gettys (Digital SRC)</entry> - <entry>Leo Treggiari (Digital SDT)</entry> - </row> - <row><?dbfo row-height="0.5cm"?> - <entry>Ralph Swick (Project Athena and Digital ERP)</entry> - <entry>Mark Ackerman (Project Athena)</entry> - </row> - <row><?dbfo row-height="0.5cm"?> - <entry>Ron Newman (Project Athena)</entry> - <entry>Bob Scheifler (MIT LCS)</entry> - </row> - </tbody> - </tgroup> -</informaltable> -</sidebar> - -<para> -The contributors to the X10 toolkit also deserve mention. Although the X11 Intrinsics present an -entirely different programming style, they borrow heavily from the implicit and -explicit concepts in the X10 toolkit. -</para> - -<para> -The design and implementation of the X10 Intrinsics were done by: -</para> - -<sidebar> -<informaltable frame='none'> -<?dbfo keep-together="always" ?> - <tgroup cols='1' rowsep='0' colsep='0'> - <colspec colwidth='1.0*' /> - <tbody> - <row> - <entry>Terry Weissman (Digital WSL)</entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry>Smokey Wallace (Digital WSL)</entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry>Phil Karlton (Digital WSL)</entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry>Charles Haynes (Digital WSL)</entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry>Frank Hall (HP)</entry> - </row> - </tbody> - </tgroup> -</informaltable> -</sidebar> - -<para> -The design and implementation of the X10 toolkit’s sample widgets were by -the above, as well as by: -</para> - -<sidebar> -<informaltable frame='none'> -<?dbfo keep-together="always" ?> - <tgroup cols='1' rowsep='0' colsep='0'> - <colspec colwidth='1.0*' /> - <tbody> - <row> - <entry>Ram Rao (Digital UEG)</entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry>Mary Larson (Digital UEG)</entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry>Mike Gancarz (Digital UEG)</entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry>Kathleen Langone (Digital UEG)</entry> - </row> - </tbody> - </tgroup> -</informaltable> -</sidebar> - -<para> -These widgets provided a checklist of requirements that we had to address in the X11 Intrinsics. -</para> -<para> -Thanks go to Al Mento of Digital’s UEG Documentation Group for formatting and generally -improving this document and to John Ousterhout of Berkeley for extensively reviewing early -drafts of it. -</para> -<para> -Finally, a special thanks to Mike Chow, whose extensive performance analysis of the X10 toolkit -provided the justification to redesign it entirely for X11. -</para> - -<literallayout> -Joel McCormack -Western Software Laboratory -Digital Equipment Corporation -March 1988 -</literallayout> - - -<para> -The current design of the Intrinsics has benefited greatly from the -input of several dedicated reviewers in the membership of the X -Consortium. In addition to those already mentioned, the following -individuals have dedicated significant time to suggesting improvements -to the Intrinsics: -</para> - -<sidebar> -<informaltable frame='none'> -<?dbfo keep-together="always" ?> - <tgroup cols='2' rowsep='0' colsep='0'> - <colspec colwidth='1.0*' /> - <colspec colwidth='1.0*' /> - <tbody> - <row> - <entry>Steve Pitschke (Stellar)</entry> - <entry>C.Doug Blewett (AT&T)</entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry>Bob Miller (HP)</entry> - <entry>David Schiferl (Tektronix)</entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry>Fred Taft (HP)</entry> - <entry>Michael Squires (Sequent)</entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry>Marcel Meth (AT&T)</entry> - <entry>JimFulton (MIT)</entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry>Mike Collins (Digital)</entry> - <entry>Kerry Kimbrough (Texas Instruments)</entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry>Scott McGregor (Digital)</entry> - <entry>Phil Karlton (Digital)</entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry>Julian Payne (ESS)</entry> - <entry>Jacques Davy (Bull)</entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry>Gabriel Beged-Dov (HP)</entry> - <entry>GlennWidener (Tektronix)</entry> - </row> - </tbody> - </tgroup> -</informaltable> -</sidebar> - -<para> -Thanks go to each of them for the countless hours spent reviewing drafts and code. -</para> - -<literallayout> -Ralph R. Swick -External Research Group -Digital Equipment Corporation -MIT Project Athena -June 1988 -</literallayout> - - -<para> -From Release 3 to Release 4, several new members joined the design team. We greatly appreciate -the thoughtful comments, suggestions, lengthy discussions, and in some cases implementation -code contributed by each of the following: -</para> - -<sidebar> -<informaltable frame='none'> -<?dbfo keep-together="always" ?> - <tgroup cols='2' rowsep='0' colsep='0'> - <colspec colwidth='1.0*' /> - <colspec colwidth='1.0*' /> - <tbody> - <row> - <entry>Don Alecci (AT&T)</entry> - <entry>EllisCohen (OSF)</entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry>Donna Converse (MIT)</entry> - <entry>Clive Feather (IXI)</entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry>Nayeem Islam (Sun)</entry> - <entry>Dana Laursen (HP)</entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry>Keith Packard (MIT)</entry> - <entry>Chris Peterson (MIT)</entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry>Richard Probst (Sun)</entry> - <entry>Larry Cable (Sun)</entry> - </row> - </tbody> - </tgroup> -</informaltable> -</sidebar> - -<para> -In Release 5, the effort to define the internationalization additions was headed by Bill McMahon -of Hewlett Packard and Frank Rojas of IBM. This has been an educational process for many of -us, and Bill and Frank’s tutelage has carried us through. Vania Joloboff of the OSF also contributed -to the internationalization additions. The implementation efforts of Bill, Gabe Beged-Dov, -and especially Donna Converse for this release are also gratefully acknowledged. -</para> - -<literallayout> -Ralph R. Swick -December 1989 -and -July 1991 -</literallayout> - -<?dbfo-need height="5in" space-before="30em" ?> -<para> -The Release 6 Intrinsics is a result of the collaborative efforts of participants in the X Consortium’s -intrinsics working group. A few individuals contributed substantial design proposals, participated -in lengthy discussions, reviewed final specifications, and in most cases, were also -responsible for sections of the implementation. They deserve recognition and thanks for their -major contributions: -</para> - -<sidebar> -<informaltable frame='none'> -<?dbfo keep-together="always" ?> - <tgroup cols='2' rowsep='0' colsep='0'> - <colspec colwidth='1.0*' /> - <colspec colwidth='1.0*' /> - <tbody> - <row> - <entry>Paul Asente (Adobe)</entry> - <entry>Larry Cable (SunSoft)</entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry>Ellis Cohen (OSF)</entry> - <entry>Daniel Dardailler (OSF)</entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry>Vania Joloboff (OSF)</entry> - <entry>KalebKeithley (X Consortium)</entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry>Courtney Loomis (HP)</entry> - <entry>Douglas Rand (OSF)</entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry>Bob Scheifler (X Consortium)</entry> - <entry>Ajay Vohra (SunSoft)</entry> - </row> - </tbody> - </tgroup> -</informaltable> -</sidebar> - -<para> -Many others analyzed designs, offered useful comments and suggestions, and participated in a -significant subset of the process. The following people deserve thanks for their contributions: -Andy Bovingdon, Sam Chang, Chris Craig, George Erwin-Grotsky, Keith Edwards, Clive -Feather, Stephen Gildea, Dan Heller, Steve Humphrey, David Kaelbling, Jaime Lau, Rob Lembree, -Stuart Marks, Beth Mynatt, Tom Paquin, Chris Peterson, Kamesh Ramakrishna, Tom -Rodriguez, Jim VanGilder, Will Walker, and Mike Wexler. -</para> - -<para> -I am especially grateful to two of my colleagues: Ralph Swick for expert editorial guidance, and -Kaleb Keithley for leadership in the implementation and the specification work. -</para> - -<literallayout> -Donna Converse -X Consortium -April 1994 -</literallayout> +<preface id='About_This_Manual'> +<title>About This Manual</title> + +<para> +X Toolkit Intrinsics — C Language Interface is intended to be read by both application programmers +who will use one or more of the many widget sets built with the Intrinsics and by widget +programmers who will use the Intrinsics to build widgets for one of the widget sets. Not all the +information in this manual, however, applies to both audiences. That is, because the application +programmer is likely to use only a number of the Intrinsics functions in writing an application and +because the widget programmer is likely to use many more, if not all, of the Intrinsics functions +in building a widget, an attempt has been made to highlight those areas of information that are +deemed to be of special interest for the application programmer. (It is assumed the widget programmer +will have to be familiar with all the information.) Therefore, all entries in the table of +contents that are printed in <emphasis role='bold'>bold</emphasis> indicate the information that +should be of special interest to an application programmer. +</para> +<para> +It is also assumed that, as application programmers become more familiar with the concepts discussed +in this manual, they will find it more convenient to implement portions of their applications +as special-purpose or custom widgets. It is possible, nonetheless, to use widgets without +knowing how to build them. +</para> + +<bridgehead><emphasis role='bold'>Conventions Used in this Manual</emphasis></bridgehead> +<para>This document uses the following conventions:</para> +<itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para> +Global symbols are printed in <function>this special font</function>. These can be either +function names, symbols defined in include files, data types, or structure names. Arguments to +functions, procedures, or macros are printed in italics. + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> +Each function is introduced by a general discussion that distinguishes it from other functions. +The function declaration itself follows, and each argument is specifically explained. +General discussion of the function, if any is required, follows the arguments. + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> +To eliminate any ambiguity between those arguments that you pass and those that a function +returns to you, the explanations for all arguments that you pass start with the word +specifies or, in the case of multiple arguments, the word specify. The explanations for all +arguments that are returned to you start with the word <emphasis>returns</emphasis> or, in +the case of multiple arguments, the word <emphasis>return</emphasis>. + </para> + </listitem> +</itemizedlist> </preface> |