Hi, 2020-01-22 18:26 GMT+01:00, Emanuele Petriglia <in...@emanuelepetriglia.com>: > Hi! > > I would like to learn how to create a C graphical application without > using some toolkit for hobby. I know that there are two main libraries: > Xlib and xcb. The first is old but has a lot of documentation, the > second is newer but less documented than the first. So I was thinking to > learn Xlib and then xcb. > > I found this book about Xlib: "XLIB Programming Manual" of Adrian Nye > published on 1994. I do not found any other recent book. Is it good to > start with Xlib even is it old? > > -- > Emanuele Petriglia (ema-pe) > > _______________________________________________ > xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription address: %(user_address)s >
[1] is a guide that should be fairly valid on xlib. >From there you can afterwards embed xlib-xcb.h, gradually migrate from xlib to xcb reading the docs, read the guide from iotek for fonts in xcb without xft [2] or embed pango in your application. [1] https://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/ [2] https://venam.nixers.net/blog/unix/2018/09/02/fonts-xcb.html _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
