Text Input Box with Xlib

[Gabriel Duarte]

Cool :) Thanks for the advice :) I hope it's directly on the top of xlib,
not of Xt; i will take a look!

Cheers

2013/2/3 Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>

> 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.
> > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Robert Heller             -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com
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Gabriel Duarte
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Rio de Janeiro / RJ
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