klee@gilroy.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee) (08/18/89)
I used to periodically post a bibliography of technical publications (mostly magazine and journal articles) on the X Window System. I thought this was useful because there few tutorial books available on X. Since then (it was only a few months ago, but that's a long time in the rapidly changing workstation world), several good tutorial books have appeared, but, for a long while, few technical articles have. I've also been lazy, so haven't kept the bibliography up to date. A few good articles have recently come out, mostly on the second wave of X stuff, like PEX and Motif. I'll try to update the bibliography and post it soon. In the mean time, here are some good books for Scheifler, Gettys, & Newman, *X Window System*, DEC Press This is the bible on Xlib and the X protocol, but not especially good as a tutorial. You need this as a reference, even if you get something else. Shipped with the X11R3 distribution from MIT. Nye, *Xlib Programming Manual*, O'Reilly & Associates Jones, *Introduction to the X Window System*, Prentice-Hall Johnson & Richard, *X Window Applications Programming*, MIS: Press These 3 are similar, all tutorials Xlib programming. The first was written by a technical writer and is the most professional looking. The other 2 were written by experienced X programmers. The Jones book has lots of useful tips on using Xlib. The Johnson & Richard book has lots and lots of sample code, but the coverage is thinner than the Jones or Nye books. None of these is as complete as Scheifler's book. Young, *X Window Systems: Programming and Applications with Xt*, Prentice-Hall Despite the typo in the title, this is a pretty good book. It's the only one that covers the X Toolkit, explaining both writing widgets and using them in applications programs. There are a few others out there. The ASP books are just reprints (word for word) of the MIT manuals. You might want to buy those if your printer is tired. Several more are in the works. Some of these should be excelent. Enjoy. Ken Lee DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif. Internet: klee@decwrl.dec.com uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee
david@ics.COM (David B. Lewis) (08/19/89)
In article <1693@bacchus.dec.com>, klee@gilroy.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee) writes:
< Nye, *Xlib Programming Manual*, O'Reilly & Associates
< Jones, *Introduction to the X Window System*, Prentice-Hall
< Johnson & Richard, *X Window Applications Programming*, MIS: Press
<
< These 3 are similar, all tutorials Xlib programming. The first was
< written by a technical writer and is the most professional looking.
< The other 2 were written by experienced X programmers. The Jones book
< has lots of useful tips on using Xlib. The Johnson & Richard book has
< lots and lots of sample code, but the coverage is thinner than the
< Jones or Nye books. None of these is as complete as Scheifler's
< book.
The Nye book is a two-volume manual covering Programming and Reference.
Volume 3 is a "using X11R2 applications" book.
At some point soon, Volumes 4 and 5, covering Programming and Reference for
Xt and Xaw, will be available.
The Jones book is being updated.
Look also for two other books on Xt programming, by reputable people,
to be out in January.
< Young, *X Window Systems: Programming and Applications with Xt*,
< Prentice-Hall
<
< Despite the typo in the title, this is a pretty good book. It's the
< only one that covers the X Toolkit, explaining both writing widgets and
< using them in applications programs.
A second edition will also be available soon.
--
David B. Lewis david@ics.com ics!david@buita.bu.edu david%ics.UUCP@buita.bu.edu
"Smuggling -- it's not just a job, it's an adventure!"argv%eureka@Sun.COM (Dan Heller) (08/19/89)
In article <2532@ics.COM> david@ics.COM (David B. Lewis) writes: > At some point soon, Volumes 4 and 5, covering Programming and Reference for > Xt and Xaw, will be available. oops. I think you typo'ed. Volume 5 from O'Reilly is on XView, not Xaw. dan <island!argv@sun.com> ----- My postings reflect my opinion only -- not the opinion of any company.
kim@cs.columbia.edu (Taeyon Kim) (05/03/90)
Can anybody send me a list of X and Motif books? I would appreciate it if you can suggest some good books. Thanks. -- Taeyon Kim (212) 222-2609
vania@osf.ORG (Vania Joloboff) (05/03/90)
The five OSF/Motif books edited by Prentice Hall are: OSF/Motif Style Guide ISBN 0-13-640491-X OSF/Motif User's Guide ISBN 0-13-640509-6 OSF/Motif Programmer's Reference ISBN 0-13-640517-7 OSF/Motif Programmer's Guide ISBN 0-13-640525-8 OSF/Motif Application Environment specifications (AES) ISBN 0-13-640483-9 The author is "Open Software Foundation". Also by Prentice Hall The X Window System, Programming with Xt The OSF/Motif edition author is Douglas A Young ISBN 0-13-497074-8