X Window Programming from Scratch

Chapter 5. Widget Sets

In this chapter

• The Power and Convenience of Using Widget Sets

• The Athena Widget Set

• Next Steps

Authoring an X Client requires constant attention to many details. The relationship between using windows within the application's hierarchy, processing events in the queue (ensuring critical events are processed quickly), and anticipating and responding to user input are a few of the considerations when writing an application for the X Window environment.

Much of the management necessary within an X-based application is greatly simplified through use of the X Toolkit Intrinsics, known as Xt.

As Chapter 4,"Windowing Concepts," led a discussion of X at the lowest level, this chapter demonstrates the relationship between widgets and windows, ...