> > Knute Johnson wrote: > > Can anybody suggest a good book to learn to write X windows > programs? > > I've done a lot of C programming in the past but no C++ or any > > programming under Linux. > > > > Thanks, > > I did a google search on "xlib tutorial" and found http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib-tutorial/ plus a bunch of other hits. There are a series of layers when programming X and you have to decide where to start. At the bottom, there is Xlib. All the calls the various X levels use eventually go through Xlib to get to the X server. They are laid out to be called from straight C and provide the basics, XOpenDisplay, XCreateSimpleWindow, XMapWindow, XNextEvent, etc. The reference for this is the O'Reilly Lib manuals (booksm #1 & #2). Above that are the intrinsics. They provide an object oriented interface to X lib and provide a lot of helper routines to simplify and standardize argument passing and other housekeeping tasks. These are books #4 and #5. Above that are the Motif widgets, and other high level widget sets. Most of my personal experience has been with the low level X lib calls. I put a sample program at http://www.styma.org/pixels.tar which has the calls to build a simple window and display the color map if you want to look at it. Bob Styma
