Fundamentals of X Programming

Graphical User Interfaces and Beyond

Theo Pavlidis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

374 Seiten

2013
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4757-8256-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Fundamentals of the X Window System.- to the X Toolkit.- Event Handling in the X Toolkit.- Programming with Widgets.- Constraint and Compound Widgets.- Text and Dialog Widgets.- Drawing Operations.- Color and Images.- Selections.- Writing Widgets.- Examples of Widget Implementation.

Reihe/Serie	Series in Computer Science
Zusatzinfo	10 Illustrations, black and white; XVII, 374 p. 10 illus.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Betriebssysteme / Server
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Programmiersprachen / -werkzeuge
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Software Entwicklung
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Compilerbau
ISBN-10	1-4757-8256-X / 147578256X
ISBN-13	978-1-4757-8256-1 / 9781475782561
Zustand	Neuware