Eric Foster-Johnson

Overview

To learn how to program in X, X Window Applications Programming, Second Edition is a tutorial describing key features of the X programming model that you need to know to create any sort of X applications.

Whether you program with the X library alone, or with a toolkit such as Motif, you need to master the material in this book, since X's programming model permeates Motif and all other X programming toolkits.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Section I: Learning X Programming
• Chapter 1: Building a First X Program
• Chapter 2: Creating Windows
• Chapter 3: Drawing with X
• Chapter 4: Color
• Chapter 5: Text and Fonts
• Chapter 6: Events and Event-Driven Programming
• Chapter 7: Keyboard Events
• Chapter 8: Cursors
• Chapter 9: Bitmaps and Icons: Off-Screen Drawing with Pixmaps
• Chapter 10: Rubber-Band Lines
• Section II: Following the Rules for Well-Behaved Programs
• Chapter 11: Common Command-Line Parameters
• Chapter 12: Sending More Information to the Window Manager
• Chapter 13: Handling Critical Errors
• Section III: Putting It All Together: Building X Window Applications
• Chapter 14: Building a Small Toolkit for X Applications
• Chapter 15: Pop-Up Dialogs and Transient Windows
• Chapter 16: Introducing the Draw Application
• Chapter 17: Editing Pixmaps
• Chapter 18: The Draw Application Source Code
• Chapter 19: Enhancing the Draw Application
• Section IV: X Toolkits
• Chapter 20: An Introduction to X Toolkits
• Appendix A: Makefile for the Sample Programs
• Appendix B: Events
• Appendix C: Some Sample X Client Applications
• Appendix D: What You Need to Run X
• Appendix E: Obtaining X
• Appendix F: For More Information
• Appendix G: The Companion Source Code Diskette
• Index

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