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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,alt.books.technical
Subject: Re: Books on X Programming
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Date: 28 Jun 91 20:29:51 GMT
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In article <gkgl1=+@rpi.edu>, wiseb@turing.cs.rpi.edu (G. Bowden Wise) writes:
|> >>Asente, Paul J. and Ralph R. Swick, X Window System Toolkit,
|> >>Digital Press, Bedford, MA, 1990 (distributed by Prentice Hall).
|> >>ISBN (Digital Press) 1-55558-051-3, (Prentice Hall) 0-13-972191-6.
|> 
|> Can someone post a description of the table of contents for this book?
|> Is it up-to-date?  What toolkits are covered?

This is the best X Toolkit book by far.  It is current (X11R4) and
includes both a tutorial and a complete specification.  The tutorial is
geared towards serious programmers.  The section on writing your own
widgets is excelent, and contains much information not found
elsewhere.  There is also tutorial info on writing applications, though
this concentrates on generic X Toolkit use, not particular widget
sets.

If you're interested in Motif programming, Thomas Berlage's book
*OSF/Motif: Concepts and Programming* is a good tutorial.  It's not as
complete as the OSF manuals, but does cover the complex subjects pretty
well.  If you're doing production-quality applications, you'll probably
want the Asente & Swick book as well, for it's superior coverage of
generic X Toolkit matters.

-- 
Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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