Hi, Thanks for the advice. Do you have any thoughts about the book? I found also a digital version thanks to Lucien. -- Emanuele Petriglia (ema-pe)
Sent from my mobile. Please excuse my brevity. On 23 January 2020 16:25:05 CET, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: >On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 18:26:32 +0100 Emanuele Petriglia ><in...@emanuelepetriglia.com> said: > >> 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? > >Advice: stick with Xlib. More examples. More docs. XCB is only better >in a few >very specific cases that mostly are the areas WM and toolkit authors >might >obsess over for small gains in performance. So stick to Xlib - that's >my advice. > >-- >------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" >-------------- >Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com > >_______________________________________________ >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
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