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Creating a Custom Window

The last section described the method for interfacing new code into dstool. If the new code requires any substantial user interaction, then the implementation of a new window is warranted. This section gives instructions on how to build windows in the same style as the current dstool windows. The interfaces into dstool are the same ones described in the previous section, so it is not necessary that a new window be built to these specifications. This section is simply a set of suggestions for one way to develop a new dstool window. In order to add a custom window to dstool you will need to make sure that dstool was installed with the full option. This is discussed in the dstool Installation Manual. We will assume that the reader has available the OpenWindows Developer's GUIDE (Graphical User Interface Design Editor) [6]. This package will greatly facilitate the writing of windowing code using the XView toolkit. Instructions on the use of this development tool is best left to the GUIDE User's Manual [6]. Similarly, we will not attempt to instruct the reader in the XView toolkit. For this we recommend The XView Programming Manual [2].




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