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.TH libXaw 3lib "18 June 2012" "X Version 11"

.SH NAME

libXaw \- X Athena Widgets

.SH DESCRIPTION

.B Xaw

is a widget set based on the X Toolkit Intrinsics (Xt) Library.  This

release of __distroname__ includes 3 versions of the Xaw library.  Since

the libXaw object model exposes structure sizes and layouts as part of the

ABI, binary compatibility is not always maintained between major releases

from the upstream X Window System projects.

.PP

.B libXaw.so.7

is the current release of libXaw, from the X11R7 release series.  Headers are 

provided for building applications against this version, and the 

.B libXaw

compilation link for -lXaw points to this version.

.PP

.BR libXaw.so.5 " and " libXaw.so.4

are provided for binary compatibility with applications built on older Solaris

releases.

.B libXaw.so.5

is compatible with the X11R5 and X11R6 release series, and was the version of

libXaw that applications built on Solaris 2.3 through Solaris 10 were linked

with.

.B libXaw.so.4

is based on the X11R4 sources, and was linked to applications built on

Solaris 2.2 and prior releases of Solaris.

.PP

Future releases of Solaris might not include the libXaw.so.4 or libXaw.so.5

libraries.   Applications using the Athena Widgets which need to run on

future releases of Solaris should be rebuilt against the current Xaw headers

and 

.B libXaw.so.7

library.

.SH "ATTRIBUTES"

See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

.sp

.TS

allbox;

cw(2.750000i)| cw(2.750000i)

lw(2.750000i)| lw(2.750000i).

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE

Availability	libXaw.so.7: x11/library/toolkit/libxaw7 

\^	libXaw.so.5: x11/library/toolkit/libxaw5 

\^	libXaw.so.4: x11/library/toolkit/libxaw4 

Interface Stability	libXaw.so.7: Uncommitted

\^	libXaw.so.5, libXaw.so.4: Obsolete

MT-Level	See XtToolkitThreadInitialize(3XT)

.TE

.sp

.SH SEE ALSO

.BR Xaw "(3xaw), " attributes "(5), "

.I Athena Widget Set - C Language Interface

( http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/libXaw/ )

.SH NOTES

libXaw is provided for the benefit of existing software written to use

this library.  For writing new software, it is recommended that a

modern toolkit, such as

.BR libgtk-x11-2.0 "(3), " 

is used instead, to provide required features such as full

internationalization and accessibility support, antialiased text,

modern rendering engines, and better integration with the desktop.