Using the Widget Toolbox
The Widget Toolbox is an application programmer’s interface (API) used to create graphical user interface (GUI) applications for PV‑WAVE. The Widget Toolbox provides a high-level method of creating and manipulating the GUI, while using the flexibility and power of PV-WAVE to process and display data. The Widget Toolbox consists of system routines that give you access to all the widget types supported by the OSF Motif toolkit.
note | Rogue Wave has ported a subset of the Widget Toolbox (Wt) functionality that is available for Motif to Microsoft Windows. Because the Widget Toolbox under Windows is not a complete implementation, we recommend that Windows developers use the PV-WAVE 10.0 Widgets (Ww) layer or the VDA Tools when developing GUI applications. |
This chapter describes the Widget Toolbox and the basic steps in incorporating widgets into PV-WAVE applications. The topics include:
An overview of the Widget Toolbox
How to use the Widget Toolbox
A description of include files that are used with the Widget Toolbox
An example application using the Widget Toolbox
The Widget Toolbox routines are primarily for PV-WAVE developers who are familiar with Xt Intrinsics/Motif-based programming or Windows programming. If you are not familiar with Motif or Windows programming, then use the PV-WAVE 10.0 Widgets functions described in
Using Wave Widgets.
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