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
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