From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 18 18:40:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA29963 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 18 Aug 1996 18:40:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA29954 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 1996 18:40:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA00411; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 10:50:42 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199608190120.KAA00411@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Getting started with X programming To: PETERS@staidan.qld.edu.au (PETER STUBBS) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 10:50:42 +0930 (CST) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <12EB46D52BA@aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au> from "PETER STUBBS" at Aug 19, 96 07:58:29 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk PETER STUBBS stands accused of saying: > > I wonder if anyone can recommend a good book to get me started with X > programming? Are there any good free tool kits? xlib looks a bit too > low level. Tk. "Tcl and the Tk toolkit" (ignore Tcl if you don't like it, Tk is useful in and of itself). Interviews (which has gone on to become something else). Libforms (libxforms). Never used this, so all I know is that someone likes it. All of the above are in the ports collection. Tcl/Tk is a religion in and of itself, but Tk can easily be used standalone. > Peter Stubbs, St Aidan's AGS. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[