Text Input Box with Xlib

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Sat Feb 2 14:02:04 PST 2013


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.

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