Text Input Box with Xlib

[Robert Heller]

At Sun, 3 Feb 2013 19:35:41 -0200 Gabriel Duarte <confusosk8 at gmail.com> 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 :)

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...

> Cheers
> 
> 2013/2/2 Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>
> 
> > At Sat, 02 Feb 2013 14:02:04 -0800 Alan Coopersmith <
> > alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> 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
> > http://wiki.tcl.tk/ for lots of fun stuff.
> >
> > >
> >
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