The connections classes are designed to provide low level links between classes that may be interested in each other. Most of the across class dependencies in the system have been centralized here in this set of classes.
All of the maintence of these connections is performed here automatically, as long as you use these classes or classes that inherit from them.
If x, y, width or height is -1, a default position/size is selected. The default may be platform-specific.
The style argument is a bitwise-ior combination of the following:
(Use 0 for no flags.)The name argument is used to associate a name with the panel, allowing the application user to set X Windows resource values for each individual panel.