Xref: utzoo news.groups:19669 comp.windows.misc:1459 comp.windows.x:20876 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ogicse!cvedc!gssc!jdm From: jdm@gssc.UUCP (John David Miller) Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Call for discussion: comp.windows.openlook Message-ID: <6173@gssc.UUCP> Date: 10 Apr 90 21:47:20 GMT References: <1990Apr4.015351.25597@dasys1.uucp> Organization: Graphic Software Systems, Bvtn OR Lines: 37 Count my vote as a "yay" for an OPEN LOOK newsgroup. I will probably be a regular contributor, as my book on OPEN LOOK Toolkit programming is due out the first part of May: tm tm Title: An OPEN LOOK at UNIX: A Developer's Guide to X Author: John David Miller Publisher: M&T Publishing (publishers of Dr. Dobb's Journal) Topic: Comprehensive programming tour of the AT&T OPEN LOOK X Toolkit, including nearly 13,000 lines of C code. Ch 1 : Overview of the OPEN LOOK GUI as it affects app style Ch 2 : Concise summary of X from the app-developer's view Ch 3 : Intro to Object-Oriented Programming Ch 4 : App-developer's guide to the Xt Intrinsics Ch 5 : The OPEN LOOK widget and gadget set, demo'ing every one Ch 6 : Turning programs into real apps: ICCCM, Xrm, OL GUI Ap A : The Xtutil Utility Library: the things Xt forgot I worked on this book for over a year, and during that time watched OPEN LOOK evolve from a spec with a weak implementation to an extremely powerful and usable user- and programmer-interface. The folks at AT&T are to be commended on their outstanding work. Certainly, UI design is highly-subjective, but for my $.02, I prefer many OPEN LOOK UI policies to those of the NeXT machine I am using to type this. If you do buy the book, please feel free to contact me with any questions and comments. -- jdm -- John David Miller jdm@gss.com Graphic Software Systems uunet!gssc!jdm 9590 S.W. Gemini Dr. (503) 641-2200 (voice) Beaverton, OR 97005-7161 (503) 643-8642 (FAX)