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From: adrian@spike.ora.COM (adrian)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: HELP needed in writing EXTENSION for PEN input device
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Date: 25 Jun 91 15:34:10 GMT
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> The only documentation I have is the X Protocol Reference Manual and
> the Xlib Programming Manual by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.  Their documentation
> of extensions is very poor. 

Our documentation of the Xlib interface for writing extensions is 
just a reformatting of the MIT X consortium documentation.  We
realize this is inadequate, and are planning to improve it as soon
as possible.  Only recently has interest in extension writing
reached the point where significant numbers of people would read 
such documentation.

We have also commissioned articles about extension
writing for our journal the X Resource.

> If you have any advice on more helpful text or 
> implementation ideas, please write.

If anyone responds, can you copy adrian@ora.com?  We would like
to reflect in our documentation the techniques, experiences and 
tricks discovered by the X community.