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Covering X11 Release 5, the Xlib Programming Manual is a complete guide to programming the X library (Xlib), the lowest level of programming interface to X. It includes introductions to internationalization, device-independent color, font service, and scalable fonts. Includes chapters on:

X Window System concepts
A simple client application
Window attributes
The graphics context
Graphics in practice
Color
Events
Interclient communication
Internationalization
The Resource Manager
A complete client application
Window management

This manual is a companion to Volume 2, Xlib Reference Manual.

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Covering X11 Release 5, the Xlib Programming Manual is a complete guide to programming the X library (Xlib), the lowest level of programming interface to X. It includes introductions to internationalization, device-independent color, font service, and scalable fonts. Includes chapters on: X Window System concepts A simple client application Window attributes The graphics context Graphics in practice Color Events Interclient communication Internationalization The Resource Manager A complete client application Window management Other programming techniques This manual is a companion to Volume 2, Xlib Reference Manual.

About the Author

Adrian Nye is the author or editor of several volumes in the X Window System Series from O'Reilly & Associates. Adrian has worked as a programmer writing educational software in C and as a mechanical engineer designing offshore oil spill cleanup equipment. He has interests in the environment and the impact of people and technology. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984 with a B.S. in mechanical engineering.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; Third edition (August 9, 1994)
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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1565920023
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1565920026
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.86 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.76 x 9.19 inches

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O'Reilly and Associates was born as a publisher of technical books when Tim O'Reilly printed out copies of the first edition of this manual and was practically mobbed at a technical convention by eager customers in 1988. This is an extremely well written book on programming with Xlib, an X Window System protocol client library in the C programming language. Xlib contains functions for interacting with an X server that allow programmers to write programs without knowing the details of the protocol. Few applications use Xlib directly anymore. Instead, they employ other libraries that use Xlib functions to provide widget toolkits such as Xt, Xaw, Motif, GTK+, and Qt. However, if you are going to need to program in Xlib directly, this is an essential book. The table of contents is as follows:

Chapter 1 Introduction - This chapter gives the big picture: what X is all about and some fundamentals of how it works.

Chapter 2 X Concepts - This chapter introduces the concepts that underlie X programming. You should read this chapter even if you are the type of person who likes to jump right into coding.

Chapter 3 Basic Window Program - Every Xlib program has a similar structure. This chapter shows a simple calculator program that puts up a window and handles events in that window. You can use this simple application as a template for your own more complex applications. All clients will use the techniques described and demonstrated here.

Chapter 4 Window Attributes - The window attributes control a window's background and border pattern or color, the events that should be queued for it, and so on. This chapter describes how to set and get window attributes and provides a detailed description of each attribute.

Chapter 5 The Graphics Context - The graphics primitives supplied with X are quite simple. Most of the details about how graphics are to be drawn are stored in a resource called a graphics context (GC). GCs are stored in the server, thus reducing the amount of information that needs to be transmitted for each graphics request. This chapter describes how to use GCs and provides details on each member of the XGCValues structure.

Chapter 6 Drawing Graphics and Text - This chapter describes the routines used to draw lines, geometrical figures, and text. It also discusses the use of the pixmaps, images, and regions.

Chapter 7 Color - This chapter describes how to use color in your programs. Color handling in X can be more complex than in other graphics systems because of the need for portability to many different types of displays. This chapter starts with the basics, and gradually moves to more advanced topics, including R5 device-independent color.

Chapter 8 Events - Events are central to X. The fundamental framework for handling events was given in Chapter 3, but this chapter gives much more detail, both on selecting events for a window and on handling them when they arrive. It discusses each of the masks used to select events; for a description of the event structures themselves, see Appendix E.

Chapter 9 The Keyboard and Pointer - This chapter not only describes how to handle keyboard and pointer events but also describes many other topics related to these two input devices. In particular, it discusses X's use of keysyms as portable symbols for character encoding, keyboard remapping, keyboard and pointer "grabs," and keyboard and pointer preferences.

Chapter 10 Internationalization - This chapter begins with a detailed overview of the goals, concepts, and techniques of internationalization, starting with ANSI-C internationalization and progressing to the R5 internationalization features. After the overview, each section covers an individual topic in X internationalization.

Chapter 11 Internationalized Text Input - The first two sections provide an overview of the internationalized text input model used by R5, and are valuable to any programmer writing internationalized applications. The remaining sections describe the Xlib functions and datatypes for internationalized text input, and are quite detailed.

Chapter 12 Interclient Communication - As a multi-window environment, X must support a mechanism for communication between applications. There are three: properties, selections, and cut buffers, all of which are described in this chapter. The special case of communication between an application and the window manager is also covered here.

Chapter 13 Managing User Preferences - It is a fundamental part of the X philosophy that the user, not the application, should be in control of the way things work. For this reason, applications should allow the user to specify window geometry and many other characteristics both via command line options and in a file that specifies default preferences. This chapter discusses the use of the resource manager, which helps an application to evaluate and merge its own default with user preferences.

Chapter 14 A Complete Application - This chapter describes and demonstrates these techniques with a real application, basecalc. The basecalc application is a programmer's calculator that allows integer calculations in binary, octal, decimal, and hexadecimal and conversions between these bases.

Chapter 15 Other Programming Techniques - This chapter discusses a few orphaned techniques that didn't quite fit in anywhere else. The routines and techniques described here will not be needed in most programs. The end of the chapter contains information about porting and portability.

Chapter 16 Window Management - This chapter discusses the design of a simple window manager, not so you will be able to write one, but so you will know what to expect from one. A window manager is a program implemented with Xlib to control the layout of windows on the screen, responding to user requests to move, resize, raise, lower, or iconify windows.

Appendix A Specifying Fonts
Appendix B X10 Compatibility
Appendix C Writing Extensions to X
Appendix D The basecalc Application
Appendix E Event Reference
Appendix F The Xmu Library
Appendix G Sources of Additional Information
Appendix H Release Notes

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X11 programming is complex, this book helps

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Unfortunately, X11 programming is extremely complex. This book is not perfect, but does guide you through the labyrinth. If you are going to program in X11, you need to get this book.

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Excellent

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X is a little cyptic but very powerful.
This book does an extremely good and thorough job of documenting Xlib programming.
It is without a doubt the best technical reference I have ever read.

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Probably the best available...

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FYI: you don't need volume 2... This book is cryptic and messy, but so is X. I've used it a lot whenever the man pages get too ugly.

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this book is awful!

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you'll never get past page 100. this book is simply unreadable. after reading a few chapters, you'll find that you've learned a lot, but understand very little. and certainly won't be able to DO anything with it. the book is guilty (amoung other things) of giving VERY technical definitions which is fine, but no attempt is made to give a better understanding of the term in basic, frank language that everyone can understand. in addition, the book is way too long. it attempts to be a treatiste on the subject of xlib. if you want to learn xlib (or anything, for that matter), you want a basic book, not a treatiste.

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Good condition and an essential text book.

Dr. Christian Maurer

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absolut unverzichtbar für jemanden, der sich in X einarbeiten will.
Es ist wirlich schade, dass die Bände dieser Serie nicht mehr von
O'Reilly "gepflegt" werden - das wäre eigentlich unbedingt nötig,
um die teils doch etwas veralteten Quellen an die neuen Releases
von X anzupassen (und die Bugs herauszuwerfen).

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