Contents

 
• Introduction
  • History
  • Philosophy
  • Library Structure
  • Features
    • Operating System Interface
    • Interprocess communcations
    • Event generation and dispatch
    • Device-independent data-oriented graphics library
    • Xt-based widget library
    • Flexible, heirarchical, portable data structure
      • Foreign Data
    • Intelligent Arrays
  • Roadmap for Application Writing
    • Image Display Tool
    • Shared Drawing Tool
    • Instrumentation Control Application
    • Image Processing Utility
• Operating System Interface
  • ``a'' package
  • ``m'' package
  • ``s'' package
  • ``dir'' package
• Channels: the basic Input/Output Mechanism
  • Purpose
  • Advantages over FILE * streams
  • Using Channels
    • Tutorials
      • Simple ASCII File Reader
      • Loading a simple Memory-Mapped Binary File
• Interprocess Communications
  • Purpose
  • Architecture
    • ``r'' package
    • ``ch'' package
    • ``dm'' package
    • ``chm'' package
    • ``pio'' package
    • ``conn'' package
    • ``arln'' package
    • ``dsxfr'' package
    • ``kcmap'' package
    • ``iedit'' package
    • ``iarray'' package
  • Addressing and Network Layers
    • Quality of Service Parameters
  • Tutorials
    • Example 1
    • Example 2
    • Example 3
    • Example 4
  • Connection Management
    • Security (authentication and encryption)
      • Authentication
      • Encryption
      • Purpose
      • Details
      • Restrictions
• Security
  • Purpose
  • Architecture
    • ``en'' package
    • ``md'' package
    • ``rp'' package
    • ``cen'' package
    • ``pgp'' package
    • ``conn'' package
  • Restrictions
• Event generation and dispatch
  • Generic Callback Mechanism
  • Periodic Events
    • Architecture
      • Generic Interface
      • Unix Timer driver
      • Xt driver
    • Tutorials
      • Example 1
      • Example 2
      • Example 3
  • Work Functions
    • Architecture
      • Generic Interface
      • Standard driver
      • Xt driver
    • Tutorials
      • Example 1
      • Example 2
      • Example 3
• Device-independent data-oriented graphics library
  • Purpose
  • Related documents
  • Architecture
    • ``ds'' package
    • ``xi'' package
    • ``imw'' package
    • ``kwin'' package
      • Purpose
      • Graphics Primitives
      • Refresh and Resize events
      • Input events
      • 24bit Support
    • ``kcmap'' package
    • ``event'' package
      • Blocking Mode
      • Asynchronous Mode
    • ``iedit'' package
    • ``iarray'' package
    • ``canvas'' package
    • ``viewimg'' package
    • ``overlay'' package
    • ``contour'' package
  • Tutorial
• Image Editing
  • Purpose
  • Related documents
  • Architecture
    • ``ds'' package
    • ``conn'' package
    • ``iedit'' package
    • ``canvas'' package
    • ``viewimg'' package
  • Tutorial
• Colourmaps
  • Purpose
  • Related documents
  • Architecture
    • ``cf'' package
    • ``xc'' package
    • ``vc'' package
    • ``conn'' package
    • ``kcmap'' package
  • Tutorial
    • Example 1
    • Example 2
    • Example 3
    • Example 4
    • Example 5
• Intelligent Arrays
  • Purpose
  • Syntax
  • Allocating
  • Disks and Connections
  • Functions on iarrays
  • Example
• Foreign Data
  • Purpose
  • Related documents
  • Tutorial
    • Example 1
    • Example 2
  • Implementing a Data Filter
    • Example VM Data Filter
    • Example Streaming Data Filter
• Multi-Threading
  • Purpose
  • Overview
  • Classes of threaded algorithms
    • Example 1
    • Example 2
• Widget Library
  • Purpose
  • Related documents
  • Architecture
  • AnimateControl widget
    • Resources
    • User Description
  • Canvas widget
    • Resources
    • User Description
  • ChoiceMenu widget
    • Resources
  • ContourSimpleControl widget
    • Resources
  • Cmapwin widget
    • Resources
  • Cmapwinpopup widget
    • Resources
    • User Description
  • Dataclip widget
    • Resources
    • User Description
  • Dialogpopup widget
    • Resources
  • DirectCmapwin widget
    • Resources
  • DressingControl widget
    • Resources
    • User Description
  • ExclusiveMenu widget
    • Resources
  • ExportMenu widget
    • Resources
    • User Description
  • Filepopup widget
    • Resources
    • User Description
  • Filewin widget
    • Resources
  • Hdial widget
    • Resources
  • ImageDisplay widget
    • Resources
    • User Description
      • The Magnifier
      • The Panner
      • Zooming in ImageDisplay Widget
      • Image Statistics in ImageDisplay Widget
      • Viewing Header Information in ImageDisplay Widget
  • Increment widget
    • Resources
  • IntensityPolicy widget
    • Resources
    • User Description
  • Ktoggle widget
    • Resources
  • LoadAndDecimate widget
    • Resources
    • User Description
  • MagnifierPopup widget
    • User Description
  • MomentGenerator widget
    • Resources
    • User Description
  • MultiCanvas widget
    • Resources
  • OverlayEditorControl widget
    • Resources
    • User Description
      • Drawing Rectangles
      • Drawing Ellipses
      • Drawing Polygons
  • Palette widget
    • Resources
  • PannerPopup widget
    • User Description
  • Postscript widget
    • Resources
    • User Description
  • Repeater widget
  • SimpleColourbar widget
    • Resources
  • SimpleSlider widget
    • Resources
  • SlaveImageDisplayPopup widget
    • Resources
    • User Description
  • ThreeDeeSlice widget
    • Resources
  • TracePopup widget
    • Resources
    • User Description
      • Zooming in TracePopup Widget
  • Twodpos widget
    • Resources
  • Value widget
    • Resources
  • View2Datasets widget
    • Resources
    • User Description
  • ZoomPolicy widget
    • Resources
    • User Description
  • Tutorial
    • Example 1
• Advanced Examples
  • Instrument Control
    • Server
    • Wait Client
    • Query Client
• Image Display Tool
  • Include Files
  • Function and Variable Declarations
  • Resources and Options
  • Main function and initialisation
  • Data Event handers
  • Canvas Event hander
  • The entire application
• Dynamic Extensions
  • Rationale
  • Architecture
    • Package Services
    • Widget Services
    • Module Services
  • Creating an Extension
  • Configuration
  • Example
• Graphics without Widgets
  • Example 1
  • Example 2
• Internals of the Karma Data Format
  • Description of the Karma Data Structure
    • Elements
      • Element Descriptors
      • Element Data
    • Packets
    • Arrays
      • Array Descriptors
      • Dimension Descriptors
      • Array Data
    • Linked Lists
      • Linked List Descriptors
      • Linked List Data
    • General Data Structure
    • multi_array structures
  • Creating Your Own Karma Data Structure
    • Creating an Ordinary Array
    • Creating an Array in Shared Memory
    • Wrapping Ordinary Arrays
    • Wrapping Shared Memory Arrays
    • Wrapping Memory Mapped Arrays
• Glossary
• Index