Hello, 2020-01-23 13:11 GMT+01:00, Emanuele Petriglia <in...@emanuelepetriglia.com>: > Hi, thank you for the reply. I'll check the two links. Between the first > link and the book, which is it better? > -- > Emanuele Petriglia (ema-pe) > > Sent from my mobile. Please excuse my brevity. > > On 23 January 2020 12:53:24 CET, Teodoro Santoni <asbras...@gmail.com> > wrote: >>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 >
If the book, as I noticed on google, is the o'reilly manual, it should be as valid as Tronche's site if o'reilly hosts somewhere the example sources. But I never read that book, so YMMV. _______________________________________________ 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
