X-Designer Capture Overview

X-Designer Capture Overview


X-Designer Capture allows you to capture dialogs from a running Motif application and drag them into XDesigner. Whether the application has been "hand-crafted" or designed using a GUI builder, X-Designer Capture can create an "xd" file of the application's design.

X-Designer Capture supports both Interface Operation and Command Line Operation.

Before Using X-Designer Capture

For successful operation of X-Designer Capture, the Motif application you wish to record must have been dynamically linked with the Xt library (libXt). On many UNIX implementations, you can find out whether the application has been dynamically or statically linked with libXt by typing:

ldd AnApplication

On HP systems, use the chatr(1) command and on Silicon Graphics systems, elfdump(1).

If the output mentions libXt, the application has been dynamically linked with the Xt library and can be used with X-Designer Capture. If this library is not present, the application has probably been statically linked with the Xt library. You will have to relink your application with the Xt shared library if you want to use X-Designer Capture.

X-Designer Capture is completely non-intrusive and will not affect either the performance or the behavior of an application.

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