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Volume 7A: XView Programming Manual
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Volume 7A: XView Programming Manual

by Dan Heller
October 1994
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
770 pages
22h 58m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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XView and the X Window System
The XView Toolkit allows a programmer to build the interface to an application without hav-
ing to learn many of the details of the underlying windowing system. However, it is valuable
to have some understanding of X before attempting to build applications under XView. This
chapter introduces many of the most important concepts on which the X Window System is
based and describes the computing environment for X applications. It also describes the role
of the XView Toolkit in the X Window System.
For the most part, this chapter assumes that you are new to programming the X Window Sys-
tem. This chapter describes the basics of the X Window System—further details will be
described as necessary later in the manual. However, this book does not repeat the detailed
description of Xlib programming found in Volume One, Xlib Programming Manual. If you
already have some experience programming the X Window System, you might wish to begin
at Chapter 2, The XView Programmer’s Model.
1.1 The X Window System
X controls a bit-mapped display in which every pixel (dot on the screen) is individually con-
trollable. This allows drawing of pictures in addition to text. Until recently, individual con-
trol of screen pixels was widely available only on personal computers (PCs) and high-priced
technical workstations, while more general-purpose machines were limited to output on text-
only ...
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ISBN: 9780937175873