[x11] Learning x window, xlib

[Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen]

John Klingler <john at jupiter.com> writes:

>    As was mentioned, the O'Reilly Xlib Reference Manual and Xlib
>    Programming manual are excellent. However, it depends on what you want
>    to build. If you want widgets, such as buttons and sliders, unless you
>    want to really get into that as a learning experience, you should use
>    a toolkit. Xt has extremely useful features but rather primitive
>    widgets. OpenMotif is excellent. No matter what you use there will
>    probably be times when a toolkit or GUI builder does not do what you
>    need and you will have to fall back on Xlib.

You really don't want to learn GUI programming with Xt and motif.
Compared to modern toolkits like gtk and qt, they're really horrible
to work with.  (Not to mention the horrible bodge that makes motif
programs crash if xt is loaded first...)

eirik


>    Jesús Antonio Sánchez Antúnez wrote:
>
>      Hello. Could you guys tell me how can I learn to code under X?
>      (Without using a framework such as Gtk+ or QT) What do I have to
>      read?
>      Thanks, keep up with the excellent work you have done.
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