yuleat@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (Andy Yule) (03/08/90)
I've been recommended a book on X windows titled:
X Window Apllications Programming
by Eric Johnson & Kevin Reichard
Before I rush out and buy it, could I have a second opinion?
Thanks in advance,
Andy Yule
yuleat@prl.philips.co.uk Philips Research Labs, Redhillkovach@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Pete Kovach) (03/09/90)
The book, X Windows Applications Programming is excellent. I used it and was able to develop a 3000 line, 3-d plotting and animation routine in 3 days. The book gives very good examples of writting applications from the ground up. If you do not plan on using libraries (graphics and other utilities) that have been built (i.e. common windows and other C based packages) it is an invaluable book (IMHO). Obviously I am recommending it. Peter Kovach Facation - A vacation of the mind Internet: kovach@src.honeywell.com
klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee) (03/10/90)
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. Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee