diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/libstdwin.tex')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/libstdwin.tex | 21 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/libstdwin.tex b/Doc/libstdwin.tex index ae7e8b9..e009e3f 100644 --- a/Doc/libstdwin.tex +++ b/Doc/libstdwin.tex @@ -1,13 +1,24 @@ -\chapter{STDWIN ONLY} +\chapter{Standard Windowing Interface} + +The modules in this chapter are available only on those systems where +the STDWIN library is available. STDWIN runs on \UNIX{} under X11 and +on the Macintosh. See CWI report CS-R8817. + +\strong{Warning:} Using STDWIN is not recommended for new +applications. It has never been ported to Microsoft Windows or +Windows NT, and for X11 or the Macintosh it lacks important +functionality --- in particular, it has no tools for the construction +of dialogs. For most platforms, alternative, native solutions exist +(though none are currently documented in this manual): Tkinter for +\UNIX{} under X11, native Xt with Motif or Athena widgets for \UNIX{} +under X11, Win32 for Windows and Windows NT, and a collection of +native toolkit interfaces for the Macintosh. \section{Built-in Module \sectcode{stdwin}} \bimodindex{stdwin} This module defines several new object types and functions that -provide access to the functionality of the Standard Window System -Interface, STDWIN [CWI report CR-R8817]. -It is available on systems to which STDWIN has been ported (which is -most systems). +provide access to the functionality of STDWIN. On Unix running X11, it can only be used if the \code{DISPLAY} environment variable is set or an explicit \samp{-display |