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## About This Guide

This book explains how to integrate applications into the IRIX Interactive Desktop environment. This book assumes that your applications run on Silicon Graphics workstations.

## What This Guide Contains

This book is divided into two sections:

- Part One explains how to achieve the Silicon Graphics look and feel for your application. (Guidelines for look and feel are provided in the IRIX Interactive User Interface Guidelines.)

- Part Two explains how to create Desktop icons for your application and install them in the Icon Catalog.

## How to Use This Guide

This book is a companion to the IRIX Interactive User Interface Guidelines. Silicon Graphics recommends that you read through the IRIX Interactive User Interface Guidelines first, then use the IRIX Interactive Desktop Integration Guide to help you implement the style guidelines.

## What You Should Know Before Reading This Guide

This guide assumes that you are familiar with the material contained in the OSF/Motif Style Guide and the IRIX Interactive User Interface Guidelines manual. It assumes also that you have some knowledge of programming in IRIS IM and Xt (or Xlib).

Silicon Graphics provides both these manuals online. You can view them from the IRIS InSight viewer. To use the IRIS InSight viewer, select “Online Books” from the Help toolchest.

## Suggested Reading

Here are some books that provide information on some of the topics covered in this guide:

- IRIS IM Programming Guide. (This book is included online with the Silicon Graphics IRIS Development Option.)

- IRIS ViewKit Programmer's Guide. ( This book is included online with the Silicon Graphics C++ option.)

- OpenGL on Silicon Graphics Systems. ( This book is included online with the Silicon Graphics IRIS Development Option.)

- Open Software Foundation. OSF/Motif Programmer's Guide, Revision 1.2. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1992. (This book is included online with the Silicon Graphics IRIS Development Option.)

- Open Software Foundation. OSF/Motif Style Guide, Revision 1.2. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1992. (This book is included online with the Silicon Graphics IRIS Development Option.)

- Nye, Adrian and O'Reilly, Tim. The X Window System, Volume 4: X Toolkit Intrinsics Programming Manual, OSF/Motif 1.2 Edition for X11, Release 5. Sebastopol: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1992. (This book is included online with the Silicon Graphics IRIS Development Option.)

- Nye, Adrian. The X Window System, Volume 1: Xlib Programming Manual for Version 11 of the X Window System. Sebastopol: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1992. (This book is included online with the Silicon Graphics IRIS Development Option.)

- Young, Doug. The X Window System, Programming and Applications with Xt, OSF/Motif Edition, Second Edition. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1994.

- Assente & Swick. The X Toolkit.

- Scheifler, Robert and Gettys, Jim. X Window System, Third Edition. Digital Press, ISBN 1-55558-088-2.

- X/Open Company, Ltd. X/Open Portability Guide (set of 7 volumes). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall Publishing Company, ISBN 0-13-685819-8.

To obtain SGI documentation, go to the SGI Technical Publications Library at:

`http://techpubs.sgi.com`

## Font Conventions in This Guide

These style conventions are used in this guide:

- Boldfaced text indicates that a term is an option flag, a data type, a keyword, a function, a command-line option, or an X resource.

- “Quoted text” indicates menu items.

- `Screen type` shows code examples and screen displays.

- `Bold screen type` indicates user input and nonprinting keyboard keys.

- Regular text shows menu and window names, and X properties.

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