Re: [xorg] Where can I find the code examples from the X11 books?

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 04/12/11 12:58 PM, Lori Nagel wrote:
> 
> I have most of the X11 books series. (there were books 0-8) that had a lot of
> documentation about the X11 interface. I wonder where I can get the code
> examples for the books.  In particular, book 4, the Athena Widget version.   I
> have been able to find the books online, but not the code examples, that I am
> really wanting

O'Reilly, the book publisher, still seems to have "Example Code" links on the
book pages that lead to tarballs, I didn't download & unpack them to confirm:

Volume 1 (Xlib): http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565920026/
Volume 4 (Motif): http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565920132/

http://oreilly.com/oreilly/cs/examples-faq.html has information about finding
examples based on the books ISBN numbers, so you should hopefully be able to
find the rest from the numbers on the book cover, the list on
http://www.x.org/wiki/ProgrammingDocumentation or from finding the books on
Amazon.

However, I must strongly urge you to use a modern toolkit instead for new code.
The Athena widgets will be sorely lacking in support for accessibility,
internationalization, integration to modern desktops, modern font and graphics
rendering, and many other things expected in modern X applications.

-- 
-Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com
 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System

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[xorg] Where can I find the code examples from the X11 books?

[Lori Nagel]

I have most of the X11 books series. (there were books 0-8) that had a lot of 
documentation about the X11 interface. I wonder where I can get the code 
examples for the books.  In particular, book 4, the Athena Widget version.   I 
have been able to find the books online, but not the code examples, that I am 
really wanting. It is getting to be a pain to have to type it all out by hand 
and guess what they mean every time they do the ... in the books. The books 
give these old ways to get code that may have worked in 1993, but the internet 
has changed so much since then, I wonder where I can get them now.  Do you 
think you would be able to help me?

Also, I wonder if anyone else on this list is interested in working with me to 
develop a game in X11.  I know retro-gaming has been, and is popular, but I 
think that we could do more to make a nice game without the long lists of 
dependancies I find in most GNU/Linux games these days. 

- Jastiv



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