PRESS RELEASE 28/11/07
New RISC OS Programmer's Reference Manual - "The Window Manager" to be available for purchase at the ARM Club Christmas Show 2007.
RISCOS Ltd has today announced that the initial print run of the first new printed update to the RISC OS Programmer's Reference Manuals in over 15 years will be available for purchase at the ARM Club Christmas Show 2007, which is being held at the Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon, Warwickshire, CV35 0BJ
on Saturday 1st December 2007 from 10.30 - 16.00.
The manual is 472 pages long and and is a complete, integrated reference to the modern Window Manager (Wimp), and is the first such since Acorn issued the RISC OS 3 PRMs.
The normal retail price will be £40 with a discount down to £38 for Select or Foundation members.
The above order prices exclude postage and packing.
Orders collected at the Show will not be liable to Postage Costs.
Postage and packing (Signed for Delivery) will be £4.50 in the UK, £10.50 to Europe and £15 to USA and Australia.
The Window Manager is designed to simplify the task of producing programs to run under a WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointer) environment. The Manager itself is usually referred to as the Wimp. programs that run under the Wimp are often called tasks, because they are operating under a multi-tasking environment.
The Manual contains the following main sections:-
Introduction to the Window Manager
Core Concepts
The Window Manager environment
Memory Management
Windows
The WindowScroll module
Icons
Menus
Error Handling
When the Window Manager first appeared in 1987, it was a new and novel concept: now these are almost universal in modern OSes.
The Window Manager is an important part of RISC OS because:
- It provides a simple to use graphical interface, that makes your applications more accessible to a wider range of users.
- It also provides the means for you to make your applications run in a multi-taksing environment, so that they can interact with each other, and with other software.
The manual also gives guidelines on how your applications should behave so that they are consistent with other RISC OS applications.
Order yours today to see how many new features there are in the RISC OS Window Manager, and how to take advantage of them in your own programs.