CSC 508 X Window Programming

An overview of the X Window System, explaining the network-transparent aspect of this windowing system, followed by the very basics needed to create an X Window Application: establishing a connection to the X server, creating windows, drawing, color, selecting fonts, and manipulating events. Explores the C language xlib interface to graphics, window manager, and events through several programming assignments. The advantage of using a toolkit, using the C language interface to several public domain toolkits with emphasis on Tcl/Tk or the Hush C++ API to Tcl/Tk, and v a C++ GUI framework.

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