Keller, Brian J.
A Practical Guide to X Window Programming is a basic guide that takes readers step by step through developing applications using X-Windows. The book covers the Xt Intrinsics portion of the X-Window system in detail and discusses the MIT Athena and OSF/Motif Widget Sets that are used in many of the examples. Topics covered include C programming fundamentals, text handling using X, fonts, event handling in Xt, extending the Widget Sets (building on Field Editor Widget), designing and constructing an application, building menus, printing help, OSF/Motif (including the window arranger) and interclient communication. Three extensive appendices are included: Widgets, Classing, and Exported Functions; Quick Xt Reference Guide (X11R4); and Quick Guide to OSF/Motif Widgets. Any applications designer interested in developing applications with Xt will find this book a valuable and enlightening resource.|The history of XXlib graphics contexts, font handling and naming, color allocation, and textual displayXt Intrinsic topics including resource gathering, command-line parsing, event handling, and translationsAn introduction to OSF/MotifApplications porting MOTIF is a trademark of Open Software Foundation, Inc. X-Window is a trademark of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A basic guide that takes readers step by step through developing applications using X-Windows. Topics covered include C programming fundamentals, text handling using X, fonts, event handling in Xt, extending the Widget Sets, designing and constructing an application, building menus, printing help, OSF/Motif and interclient communication.
