New RISC OS Programmers Reference Manual - The Window Manager available at ARM Club Christmas Show 2007
Paul Middleton
New RISC OS Programmers Reference Manual - "The Window Manager" to be
available for purchase at the ARM Club Christmas Show 2007.
RISCOS Ltd has today announced that the initial print run of the first new
printed update to the RISC OS Programmers Reference Manuals in over 15 years
will be available for purchase at the ARM Club Christmas Show 2007, which is
being held at the Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon, Warwickshire, CV35 0BJ on
Saturday 1st December 2007 from 10.30 - 16.00.
The manual is 472 pages long and covers all the additions and changes to the
Window Manager (Wimp) that have occurred since RISC OS 3. It does not
include any items which have since been deprecated, so it may need to be
read in conjunction with the original PRM Volume 3 if you need to use both
RISC OS 3 only functions and newer RISC OS 4/6 functions. However for anyone
developing for the most up to date version of RISC OS, then this volume will
give you everything you need to know about the Window Manager under RISC OS
Six.
The normal retail price will be ukp40 with a discount down to ukp38 for
Select or Foundation members.
The above order prices exclude postage and packing.
Orders collected at the Show will not be liable to Postage Costs.
Postage and packing (Signed for Delivery) will be ukp4.50 in the UK,
ukp10.50 to Europe and ukp15 to USA and Australia.
The Window Manager is designed to simplify the task of producing programs to
run under a WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointer) environment. The
manager itself is usually referred to as the Wimp. programs that run under
the Wimp are often called task, because they are operating under a
multi-tasking environment.
The Manual contains the following main sections:-
Introduction to the Window Manager
Core Concepts
The Window Manager environment
Memory Management
Windows
The WindowScroll module
Icons
Menus
Error Handling
When the Window Manager first appeared in 1987, it was a new and novel
concept: now these are almost universal in modern OSes.
The Window Manager is an important part of RISC OS because:
- It provides a simple to use graphical interface, that makes your
applications more accessible to a wider range of users.
- It also provides the means for you to make your applications run in a
multi-taksing environment, so that they can interact with each other, and
with other software.
The manual also gives guidelines on how your applications should behave so
that they are consistent with other RISC OS applications.
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