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From: sscott@camdev.UUCP (Steve Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Beginning use of Xlib
Message-ID: <186@camdev.UUCP>
Date: 18 Apr 89 13:32:51 GMT
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Reply-To: sscott@camdev.UUCP (Steve Scott)
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In article <890417132825.000005B7261@grouch.JPL.NASA.GOV> PJS@GROUCH.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott) writes:
>
>My question: what is a good text for learning how to write in Xlib, with
>examples?  The supplied source code is no good because (1) it uses the
>toolkit, which I don't want to get into yet, and (2) it is poorly
>commented.  Also, is it the case that I shouldn't have to know anything
>about uwm and/or the toolkit in order to get programs that just call
>Xlib working?
>

I would like to recommend to you a book by Oliver Jones called "Introduction
to the X Window System".  It is published by Prentice Hall and it's ISBN
number is 0-13-499997-5.  The reason I can recommend this book is because
Jones states emphatically that the purpose of the book is to allow you
to learn how to program X using Xlib with the specific intent of BYPASSING
THE TOOLKITS!.  Not that I have anything against thge toolkits (wouldn't
life be difficult without them ;-)) but if you understand the system well
enough to program using Xlib, then you understand it well enough for nearly
all programming projects (and we all know that only a true masochist would
want to get in and muck with the base window system ;-))


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