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Fundamentals of X Programming

Graphical User Interfaces and Beyond

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  • © 2002

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Authors:
  1. Theo Pavlidis

    1. State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook

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Part of the book series: Series in Computer Science (SCS)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-23

  3. Fundamentals of the X Window System

    Pages 25-58

  4. Introduction to the X Toolkit

    Pages 59-93

  5. Event Handling in the X Toolkit

    Pages 95-134

  6. Programming with Widgets

    Pages 135-172

  7. Constraint and Compound Widgets

    Pages 173-196

  8. Text and Dialog Widgets

    Pages 197-213

  9. Drawing Operations

    Pages 215-248

  10. Color and Images

    Pages 249-279

  11. Selections

    Pages 281-301

  12. Writing Widgets

    Pages 303-331

  13. Examples of Widget Implementation

    Pages 333-358

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 359-374
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About this book

This book provides an overview of the X Window System focusing on characteristics that have significant impact on the development of both application programs and widgets. We pay special attention to applications that go beyond graphical user interfaces (GUIs); therefore we discuss issues affecting video games, visualization and imaging programs, and designing widgets with a complex appearance. While the book does not assume previous knowledge of X, it is intended for experienced programmers, especially those who want to write programs that go beyond simple GUIs. X is the dominant window system under Unix, and X servers are available for Microsoft Windows, thus enabling graphics over a network in the PC world. While Java offers an apparently universal graphics library (the abstract window toolkit), the reality is quite different: For high-quality graphics and image display, we must program on the target platform itself (X or one of Microsoft’s APIs) rather than rely on Java peer objects. X is a vast subject, so it is impossible to provide a complete coverage in a few hundred pages. Thus we selected topics that are fundamental to the system, so that the reader who masters them should be able to read the documentation of the numerous libraries and toolkits. Therefore we provide documentation on the most important Xlib and X toolkit functions only.

Authors and Affiliations

  • State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook

    Theo Pavlidis

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Fundamentals of X Programming

  • Book Subtitle: Graphical User Interfaces and Beyond

  • Authors: Theo Pavlidis

  • Series Title: Series in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b116045

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-46065-4Due: 31 May 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-8256-1Published: 22 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-46968-8Published: 09 December 2005

  • Series ISSN: 1567-7974

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 374

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters, Computer Graphics, Operating Systems

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