Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!smoke.cs.toronto.edu!neat.cs.toronto.edu!moraes Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi From: moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) Subject: Re: SGI's migration to X Message-ID: <90Aug30.200125edt.682@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto References: <208@voodoo.UUCP> Date: 31 Aug 90 00:01:42 GMT Lines: 42 >and the only routine they provide sends the pixels over one by one, >OVER THE NETWORK! so that even when you display from your own private >terminal to your own private screen it goes... Not true. You can build and send the entire image in one go. See XPutImage. >And then there are other little annoying things- like you cannot tell >X in advance where you want your window to arrive, the only way to >position it is by hand with the mouse. Also not true. You can specify where you want the window to go. At the application level, most applications will accept the -geometry option -- at the program level, see XSetWMNormalHints. The X manuals are, um, terse. They're reference manuals. There are several tutorial manuals on the market now. You may find reading those manuals quicker than asking the people at the X Consortium. From the X Bibliography Ken Lee posts periodically to comp.windows.x, my favourites are: | Jones, Oliver, Introduction to the X Window System, Prentice-Hall, 1988. | ISBN 0-13-499997-5. An excellent introduction to programming with | Xlib. Written with the programmer in mind, this book includes many | practical tips that are not found anywhere else. This book is not as | broad as the O'Reilly Xlib tutorial and doesn't offer as many examples | as the Johnson & Reichard book, but Jones is probably the most experi- | enced X programmer of this group and this shows in the quality and | depth of the material in the book. Originally written for X11R1, re- | cent printings have included corrections and additions. The sixth | printing may have X11R4 material. | | Young, Douglas A., X Window Systems Programming and Applications With Xt, | Prentice-Hall, 1989. ISBN 0-13-972167-3. The first, and still one of | the best, tutorial on programming with the X Toolkit intrinsics. Both | using existing widgets and writing your own widgets are covered. Exam- | ples in this book use the HP widget set, available in the contrib sec- | tion of the X distribution. A Motif version of this book is also | available. Mark.