Product Standard
User Interface:
X Window System Application Interface
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Product Standard
User Interface: X Window System Application Interface
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NAME
X Window System Application Interface
LABEL FOR LOGO
No label.
DESCRIPTION
This Product Standard provides X Window System user interface services to applications via a
programmatic interface. It includes the Xlib interface, the X Protocol, ICCCM, and the Xt
Intrinsics, at the X11 Release 4 level.
It is optional whether the displays are local and/or remote and whether they employ the X
Protocol (that is, the focus of this Product Standard is application portability).
CONFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS
Conforming implementations must be able to drive a local or a remote display device, or both.
Human-Computer Interface
Not applicable.
Portability Interface
Xlib-C Language Binding Specification.1
X Toolkit Intrinsics Specification.2
X Window System File Formats and Application Conventions Specification3, Chapters 2 to 7,
Inter-client Communications Conventions Manual (ICCCM).
X Window System File Formats and Application Conventions Specification, Chapters 8 to 11, X
Logical Font Description (XLFD).
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1. CAE Specification, August 1991, X/Open Window Management: Xlib-C Language Binding (ISBN: 1-872630-11-1, C140).
2. CAE Specification, July 1991, X/Open Window Management: X Toolkit Intrinsics (ISBN: 1-872630-14-6, C160).
3. CAE Specification, August 1991, X/Open Window Management: X Window System File Formats and Application Conventions
(ISBN: 1-872630-15-4, C170).
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Programming Language Environment
C Language. C language source programs invoking the services of this Product Standard must
be supported by the registered product.
Interoperability
• Data Interchange Formats
Products conforming to the X Window System Application Interface Product Standard may
optionally support the interchange of textual data according to the X Window System File
Formats and Application Conventions Specification.
• Communications Interfaces and Protocols
Products conforming to the X Window System Application Interface Product Standard may
optionally provide support for driving external displays according to the X Window System
Protocol Specification4, requirements on clients, and the X Window System File Formats and
Application Conventions Specification, Chapters 2 to 7, Inter-client Communications
Conventions Manual (ICCCM).
Support for X Protocol over TCP/IP is required.
Support for other transport protocols may be declared in the Conformance Statement.
OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENT
Not applicable.
PORTABILITY ENVIRONMENT
XPG3 Internationalized System Calls and Libraries, Internationalized System Calls and
Libraries, or Internationalized System Calls and Libraries Extended.
OVERRIDING STANDARDS
None.
INDICATORS OF COMPLIANCE
A Test Report from a currently authorized release of the VSW5 Test Suite.
The tests must be performed in a test environment that contains an X Window System Display
and the X Window System Application Interface implementation interconnected with TCP/IP.
If external protocol support is claimed, then the X Protocol driving the display during the test
must be carried over an external TCP/IP connection.
MIGRATION
The Xlib interface is upwards-compatible from that of the XPG3 Window Management Product
Standard.
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4. CAE Specification, July 1991, X/Open Window Management: X Window System Protocol (ISBN: 1-872630-13-8, C150).
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