david@ics.COM (David B. Lewis) (06/13/89)
In article <12845@reed.UUCP>, djj@reed.UUCP (_Don_Weston_Jr._) writes: > This next year Reed College is going to have available to the whole > campus a network of four DEC workstations running X. I am looking for books > at various levels of difficulty. ... > What I would *really* like are a few books which could do for X what > _The_C_Programming_Language_ by Kernighan and Ritchie did for C. We've just received a final copy of Doug Young's "The X Window System: Applications and Programming with Xt", which looks to be a good tutorial on both Xt and Xlib. Doug's description follows: This book is written for the professional application developer or student who wishes to use X and the X Toolkit. It describes how to use the X Toolkit, a high level toolkit for writing X-based applications. The X Toolkit consists of two levels, the Xt Intrinsics and a set of user interface components known as widgets. The book describes both the Xt Intrinsics layer and a typical widget set. The book presents a unified view of the X Window System, describing and demonstrating how to write applications using both the X Toolkit layer (Xt Intrinsics + widgets) and the lower-level Xlib C interface. The book also discusses how to extend the X Toolkit by writing new widgets. The book relies heavily on examples, presenting and dissecting over 40 complete working programs. The book is 477 pages long, including an extensive index and several appendixes containing reference material. See the article on comp.newprod (spelling?) about three weeks ago for the full description. We'll be bringing many copies to Xhibition'89 with us (thanks to the person who so quickly posted the registration information); the book is also soon available at Fine Bookstores Everywhere. PS: the book that is really the analogy in the X world to K&R is Scheifler/Gettys/Newman's "X Window System" . I assume you are looking for more of a tutorial. -- David B. Lewis david@ics.com ics!david@buita.bu.edu david%ics.UUCP@buita.bu.edu "Oh, who that ever lived and loved can look upon an egg unmoved?" -Clarence Day