Read Me Before Installing HP PEX Development Environment HP9000 Series 700 Color Workstations ABCDE HP Part No. B2355-90630 Printed in USA June 1996 E0696 FINAL TRIM SIZE : 7.5 in x 9.
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PEX and PEXlib are trademarks of the X Consortium. Copyright c 1996, Hewlett-Packard Company FINAL TRIM SIZE : 7.5 in x 9.
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1 HP PEX Introduction The Version 4 release of HP PEX 5.1 brings high-performance 3D graphics through the X server to the HP9000, Series 700 family of 3D Color Workstations. The HP PEX server and HP PEXlib client software extend the capabilities of the X Window System and provide integrated 3D distributed graphics in an open systems environment. The Hewlett-Packard implementation is equipped with a number of features for enhanced performance and interoperability.
In addition, the HP PEX Developer's Environment requires the header les and development tools for the X Window System Version 11, Release 5, available in the HP-UX Developer's Toolkit or the ANSI/C HP-UX Developer's Toolkit.
Installation Verification If you are setting up a new workstation, or have already installed the HP-UX 10.20 operating system, all HP PEX software may already be preloaded for you. If the HP PEX developer's software is not loaded on your system, you will have to install it before you can use it. Since the HP PEX Developer's Kit is part of the HP-UX Developer's Toolkit, follow the installation instructions for the HP-UX Developer's Toolkit, and include the PEX-related lesets for installation.
utility programs used for setting up workstations properly and which provide interoperability of programs. Also, look in the README les that may be found in the various subdirectories of the HP PEX product's main directory pex 1 . h i Using Example Programs, Demonstrations, and Utilities h i The directory pex 1 contains various example programs and demonstrations listed below. It also contains important utilities for running these programs with PEXlib extensions supported by Hewlett-Packard.
Programming utilities for visual selection and color map creation provided by the CGE PEX vendors are in cge-utils 2 . Other important programming utilities are provided in the directory pexutils 2. h i h i By listing the les in these directories, you will see utilities designed for improving the interoperability of programs between workstations of di erent manufacturers, resolving color map issues, selecting visuals and creating windows for HP workstations.
HP PEX On-Line Information |HP integrates this on-line, hypertext tutorial based on the \Getting Started" chapter from the PEXlib Programming Manual . Portable Programming with CGE PEX 5.1 |A CGE-standard document that provides information on how to write applications that will be portable and interoperable across di erent vendors' platforms.
