Cool :) Thanks for the advice :) I hope it's directly on the top of xlib, not of Xt; i will take a look!<div> </div><div>Cheers <div class="gmail_quote">2013/2/3 Robert Heller <<a href="mailto:heller@deepsoft.com" target="_blank">heller@deepsoft.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">At Sun, 3 Feb 2013 19:35:41 -0200 Gabriel Duarte <<a href="mailto:confusosk8@gmail.com">confusosk8@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > > Hello! > No, you didn't get the ideia. I do no want to use a toolkit, I'm writing a > toolkit. It's an exercise and for fun, not something professional like > GTK+, Qt or TK. I have already used GTK+ and Qt, even FLTK for my projects, > so using them is not the big deal. I just asked here for someone who had > some experience building this kind of stuff and because I'm not so > experienced to Xlib. > > Build a text input box is challenging and because of this I asked for some > advices of how to write it, not use an already done from some other toolkit. > > Thank you anyway :) I will try this week to build some sketch of the text > input box :) </div>One thought: The widgets in Tcl/Tk are layered right on top of XLib -- so looking at the source code for Tk might prove very enlightening... <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> > Cheers > > 2013/2/2 Robert Heller <<a href="mailto:heller@deepsoft.com">heller@deepsoft.com</a>> > > > At Sat, 02 Feb 2013 14:02:04 -0800 Alan Coopersmith < > > <a href="mailto:alan.coopersmith@oracle.com">alan.coopersmith@oracle.com</a>> wrote: > > > > > > > > On 02/ 2/13 01:56 PM, Gabriel Duarte wrote: > > > > I already got window and button widgets working, and now I would like > > > > to write a text input box, but I have no idea how to start. If someone > > out > > > > there have advices, example code, etc etc, I would be very glad. > > > > > > The best advice we can give you is to use an existing toolkit. > > > Correctly handling all the different languages, writing systems, > > > accessibility helpers, etc. is a multi-year project to write, debug, > > > and make useful, and one that people have already done for you. > > > > And if you are too impatient for that, just use Tcl/Tk. Tcl is a basic > > scripting language that comes with a basic GUI toolkit. One that you > > can play with *interactively*. Once you have Tcl/Tk installed (under > > Linux it is just a matter of > > > > # Red Hat flavored (RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux, Fedora) > > yum install tcl tk > > # Debian flavored (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc.) > > apt-get install tcl tk > > > > ), you can do this ('%'=shell prompt): > > > > % wish > > pack [entry .e] > > > > and presto, a text input box. > > > > A slightly more exciting example: > > > > % wish > > pack [entry .e] -side left > > pack [buttom .b \ > > -text "Hit me" \ > > -command {puts "You entered: '[.e cget -text]'"}] -side right > > > > The packages *should* come with man pages. Also: visit > > <a href="http://wiki.tcl.tk/" target="_blank">http://wiki.tcl.tk/</a> for lots of fun stuff. > > > > > > > > > -- > > Robert Heller -- <a href="tel:978-544-6933" value="+559785446933">978-544-6933</a> / <a href="mailto:heller@deepsoft.com">heller@deepsoft.com</a> > > Deepwoods Software -- <a href="http://www.deepsoft.com/" target="_blank">http://www.deepsoft.com/</a> > > () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail > > /\ <a href="http://www.asciiribbon.org" target="_blank">www.asciiribbon.org</a> -- against proprietary attachments > > > > > > > > > > -- Robert Heller -- <a href="tel:978-544-6933" value="+559785446933">978-544-6933</a> / <a href="mailto:heller@deepsoft.com">heller@deepsoft.com</a> Deepwoods Software -- <a href="http://www.deepsoft.com/" target="_blank">http://www.deepsoft.com/</a> () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ <a href="http://www.asciiribbon.org" target="_blank">www.asciiribbon.org</a> -- against proprietary attachments </div></div></blockquote></div> <div> </div>-- <div>Gabriel Duarte</div>Linux User #471185 Rio de Janeiro / RJ <a href="http://genericdev.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://genericdev.wordpress.com/</a> </div>