dayoung@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Doug A. Young) (05/25/89)
This is a pointer to an announcement on comp.newprod of a new book from Prentice Hall: The X Window System: Applications and Programming with Xt by Douglas Young. The book describes the X Toolkit from an application programmer's perspective, using HP's X Widget set. The book relies heavily on examples, presenting and dissecting over 40 complete working programs. The examples have been tested with the contributed R2-based HP widget set, available in the R3 distribution, the R3 patches available on expo, and HP's R2-based product widget set. Where there are differences, the book describes the R3 Intrinsics, but most examples and discussion apply to either R2 or R3. 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 Xlib. Three chapters on writing new widgets are also included. The book is 477 pages long, including an index, bibliography, and appendixes containing reference material. Suggested retail price is $25.95, and the book should be in bookstores within the next two weeks. Please see comp.newprod for the complete announcement. Doug Young
dennis@hpirs.HP.COM (Dennis D. Lee) (05/26/89)
That's you own book, isn't it? :-) -dennis Sorry, just can't resist.