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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: X Windows book
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Date: 9 Mar 90 18:25:22 GMT
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In article <1064@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk>,
yuleat@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (Andy Yule) writes:
> I've been recommended a book on X windows titled:
> 
>    X Window Apllications Programming
>    by Eric Johnson & Kevin Reichard

I would recommend against this book.  The strongest point of this book
is its numerous examples.  Unfortunately, many of the examples are
poorly behaved or violate X interoperability conventions.  Further,
this book only covers the most basic X programming interface (Xlib).
Most programmers are much better off using the higher level (X Toolkit)
interfaces.  A good tutorial on the X Toolkit is *The X Window System:
Programming and Applications with XT* by Doug Young.  If you must use
Xlib, a good tutorial is *Introduction to the X Window System* by
Oliver Jones.  Both books are published by Prentice-Hall.
 
Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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