[ale] Books on Xlib programming

[Joseph A. Knapka]

> Chris Fowler wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Are there any good online documents on Xlib programming?  I want to
> write a short program that basically does the following:
> 
> 1. Asks user a question with 2 buttons.  Yes, No.
> 2. Based on button pressed call function.
> 
> I have found some but they seemed to be focused on Motif.  I'm using
> redhat 7, 6.1, and 4.2 and want to use those standard X libraries.  I
> could use Wish but it ma be too big for the device I'm building.
> 
> I need a quick guide that will get me started.  I can figure out the
> rest.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris

I use Tk for everything myself, but I have a book called "X Window
Inside and Out" by Levi Reiss and Joseph Radin, ISBN# 0-07-881796-X.
It's very good, lots of example code. Focus is on Xlib an intrinsics.
Beware that your 3-line Tk script will turn into a few hundred lines
of C.

-- Joe Knapka
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