Chapter 1, "Introducing the ToolTalk Service," describes how the ToolTalk service works and how it uses information that your application supplies to deliver messages; how applications use the ToolTalk service; and application and ToolTalk components.
Chapter 2, "How to Use ToolTalk Messaging," contains the information you need to write an application using the ToolTalk service in the Common Desktop Environment, including the kinds of ToolTalk toolkit messages that need to be included in your application in order for it to inter-operate with other ToolTalk-aware Common Desktop Environment-compliant applications.
Chapter 3, "Using TTSnoop to Debug Messages and Patterns," describes how to create and send custom-constructed ToolTalk messages, and also how to selectively monitor any or all ToolTalk messages.
Chapter 4, "Using ToolTalk Tracing," describes how a ToolTalk pattern matches and delivers every message ttsession sees.
Appendix A, "The Messaging Toolkit," describes some of the application program interface (API functions) that are a part of the messaging toolkit.
Appendix B, "The CoEd Demonstration Program," gives the ToolTalk-related portions of the ptype, header, and .c files of the ToolTalk demo program CoEd.
Appendix C, "New ToolTalk Functions," describes the ToolTalk functions that map filenames between local and canonical paths.
This book describes ToolTalk and its functionality in depth, and is appropriate for all platforms to which ToolTalk has been ported.
This book describes how to create and develop open protocols for applications that use a messaging service to communicate with other applications. The general principles described in this book provide an application with the flexibility required for users to easily interchange tools.
These conventions apply to any tools in a POSIX or X11 environment. In addition to standard messages for these environments, the Desktop conventions define data types and error codes that apply to all of the ToolTalk inter-client conventions.
Allows a tool to be a container for arbitrary media, or to be a media player/editor that can be driven from such a container.
An open specification defining abstract, framework-neutral message interfaces for CASE set-up by Sunsoft, DEC, and SGI. This work has been merged with HP's CASE Communique work, which defined message interfaces for HP's SoftBench Broadcast Message Server framework, and was submitted as a joint draft to ANSI X3H6. More information on the draft X3H6 standard can be retrieved from ftp.netcom.com, in /pub/X3H6; or you can contact:
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