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Integrating applications into the Desktop

Integrating applications into the Desktop

This paper explains how to use the icon, display resolution, color, and session manager APIs (application programming interfaces) provided with SCO OpenServer.

These APIs help you integrate your application into an SCO OpenServer system. With them, you can ensure the best look for your application by defining different graphical resources for different display types. Using the SCO OpenServer APIs will also help make your application's appearance and behavior consistent with that of other software running on an SCO OpenServer system. Users expect and depend on such consistency, because it enables them to learn and use new applications more easily.

You may use any, all, or none of the four APIs described in this paper. We recommend you use all four, because:


NOTE: Of the four listed above, only the icon object API is applicable to character-based applications.


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SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.7 -- 11 February 2003