rws@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (02/15/91)
The MIT X Consortium is pleased to make available materials from the
5th Annual X Technical Conference, which was held 14-16 January 1991.
The following packages are available:
Code Title US non-US
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PRO Printed Conference Proceedings $15.00 $25.00
AUD Printed Conference Proceedings $65.00 $75.00
plus Conference Talks Audio Tapes
PEX PEX Tutorial Video Tapes (VHS) $120.00 $130.00
plus Tutorial Notes
WID Widget Internals Tutorial Audio Tapes $20.00 $30.00
plus Tutorial Notes
SER Server Internals Tutorial Audio Tapes $15.00 $25.00
plus Tutorial Notes
The audio tapes for code (AUD) containly only talks, no tutorials. A
complete list of talks is given further below. Abstracts for the three
tutorials are also provided below. Materials from other tutorials are
not available.
The prices above are set to let us break even on costs; this is not a
for-profit venture.
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List of Conference talks (an asterisk means there is no printed material
associated with the talk in the Proceedings):
Futures in Advanced GUI Technology
Aaron Marcus, Aaron Marcus and Associates
Tcl and Tk: A Programming System for X11 User Interfaces
John K. Ousterhout, University of California at Berkeley
Subclassing Widgets: What You Can Do With and Without Source Code
Ralph R. Swick, Digital Equipment Corporation/MIT Project Athena
Mark S. Ackerman, MIT Center for Coordination Science
Flyweight Objects in InterViews 3.0
Mark Linton, Silicon Graphics
Customization - Rope for a Noose, or Lifeline for the Drowning?
Jim Gettys, Digital Equipment Corporation,
Cambridge Research Laboratory
Editres - A Graphical Resource Editor for X Toolkit Applications
Chris D. Peterson, Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc.
Writing Internationalized X Clients: X11 Release 5 uses your language
Glenn Widener, Network Displays Division, Tektronix
Vania Joloboff, Open Software Foundation
Porting a Sophisticated Graphics Application to the X Environment(*)
Linda Gass, Manager of Display PostScript, Adobe Systems, Incorporated
Jim Sandman, Computer Scientist, Adobe Systems, Incorporated
X Image Extension Applications
John Weber, Digital Equipment Corporation
Implementing PHIGS with PEX, A PEX-SI API Design Overview
Tom Gaskins, Sound Software Development
The PEX Sample Implementation Server Extension
Nagesh Aragam, Lisa Chabot, John Recker
PEX Sample Implementation Team, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Issues in a Visual Rich Environment(*)
Jeff Weinstein, Silicon Graphics Computer Systems
PEXIM - an Approach to PEX Immediate Mode
Jan C. Hardenbergh, Stardent Computer
A Font Server for the X Window System(*)
Jim Fulton, Network Computing Devices
Implementing Drag-and-Drop in X11
Stuart W. Marks, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
The Portable Electronic Notebook
Jim Rhyne, Doris Chow, Michael Sacks
The T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM Corp.
A Window System for Multimedia Applications
Hideya Ichihara, NTT Human Interface Laboratories
X and Audio: Oil and Vinegar?(*)
Susan Angebranndt, Digital Equipment Corporation
Richard Hyde, Digital Equipment Corporation
Daphne Luong, Digital Equipment Corporation
Chris Schmandt, MIT Media Lab
A Synchronisation Extension for X
Tim Glauert, Olivetti Research / MultiWorks
Graphical Application Kits
Andrew Peebles, Mips Computer Systems
The Widget Creation Library: An Easier Way to Develop Widget Based Applications
David E. Smyth, Jet Propulsion Labs
Go: A graphical and interactive C++ toolkit for application data presentation
and editing
Jacques Davy, Bull
Tutorial: Programming Clients with the PEX Sample Implementation (PEX-SI)
Time: 6 hours
Instructors: Marty Hess, PEX Sample Implementation Team,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Tom Gaskins, Sound Software Development
Cheryl Huntington, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Abstract: X3D-PEX (PEX) is a network protocol extension to the X11 Window
System. PEX, the PHIGS and PHIGS PLUS Extension, adds three dimensional
(3D) capability to X11. PHIGS, the Programmers Hierarchical Interactive
Graphics System, is an international standard for 3D graphics. PHIGS PLUS
is an extension to PHIGS being proposed in the international community to
support additional features for lighting, shading, depth cueing, and
advanced curve and surface primitives. The PEX protocol extension to X11
makes it possible to use standard programming interfaces to transmit 3D
graphics efficiently across heterogeneous networks.
In this course technical professionals who are either applications or
graphics-system designers or developers will be introduced to the PEX
protocol and the PHIGS/PHIGS PLUS Application Programming Interface (API) as
they have been implemented by the PEX Sample Implementation (PEX-SI) Team at
Sun Microsystems. (The PEX-SI is intended to be distributed via the X
Consortium sometime in 1991.)
It is recommended that attendees be very familiar with the X11 Window
System. It is helpful if attendees are comfortable with the fundamentals of
3D graphics, especially the existing PHIGS graphics standard, and the
proposed PHIGS standard extensions, PHIGS PLUS, although these concepts will
be covered somewhat. There will also be several C language programming
examples.
Tutorial: Widget Internals: How to Understand and Write Simple Widgets
Time: 3 hours
Instructors: Ralph R. Swick, Digital Equipment Corporation/MIT Project Athena
Mark S. Ackerman, MIT Center for Coordination Science
Abstract: This tutorial is intended to help people read and understand
widget source code. This skill is useful when trying to interpret
documentation, to find bugs in applications, and to customize widget
behavior (aka subclassing). This tutorial should be a good "add-on" to
Motif and OpenLook widget tutorials, since it will help people understand
what is behind the GUI components.
The audience is expected to have some familiarity with applications
programming using any one of the available Intrinsics-based widget sets.
The material will be appropriate to all such widget sets. Knowledge of C is
presumed.
Coverage: Widget data structures, necessary methods, code structure, actions
and translations, resource data structures, selections, converters,
compounds, when and how methods are called
Tutorial: X Sample Server Internals
Time: 3 hours
Instructor: Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium
Abstract: This tutorial will cover in some detail the internal workings of
the sample server. Particular emphasis will be placed on porting the server
to new machines, writing extensions and the interface changes which took
place between R3 and R4. Release 4 offers a wide range of interesting
optimizations which will be discussed, both from a practical perspective of
their impact on various interfaces, and from a performance perspective.
Finally, a discussion on the impact of X on hardware design will be
included, in the vain hope that software engineers will be able to impact
their hardware environment.