On Sunday 09 June 2002 08:54, paco wrote: > If I want to program blackbox apps, what api should I use?? gtk? qt??, > or there's one for making apps/programs?? You may use gtk or qt, as you like. Blackbox will soon (in few weeks/months ?) split into a program and a shared library. This shared library will provide to Blackbox related apps texture rendering routines, and some other useful features. I don't know if the content is already clearly defined.
> it's just that I can't find the way to make an X apps without using gtk > or qt... It depends on what type of apps you want to make. Writing X apps, using directly Xlib is quite difficult, because Xlib is a "low level" library (it only provides windows !). If you want to make a bbtool, you probably will have to deal with few windows, listening Expose, ButtonPress and ButtonRelease events. You don't need a `hudge' toolkit to make it, and you may look at the structure of another bbtool. One additional thought: If the Blackbox library doesn't provide it, it could be interesting/useful to make a Bbtool Framework, couldn't it ?
