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Article #38342Re: [Q]: Can I write X window program using C++?
From: Phil Hunt
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 00:00
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In article <36061a79.0@ruby.hknet.com> Doug@hotmail.com writes: > I guess the simple answer would be 'Yes'. Please give me some > advice on how and where to pay attension. Also are there any > site talk about this? Thanks. Writing a program using low-level X calls is not a good idea, unless you want to waste lots of time. It's better to use a more high-level class library. Two that spring to mind are Qt (made by Troll Tech, www.troll.no), which is used by the KDE environment, and GTK-- (part of the GNU project), which is used by the GNOME project (www.gnome.org IIRC). -- @@--Phil Hunt-----------------------------Don't fear the penguins(*)--@@ @@ [*] Disclaimer: this is FREE ADVICE, and is distributed in the @@ @@ hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; note also @@ @@ that this advice may not apply if your name is Gates or Ballmer. @@
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