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In article <906839739snz@vision25.demon.co.uk>,
	philh@vision25.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt) writes:
> 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).

   Well, this seems to be just an opinion with no real
   fact backing it up.  There are no real reasons for one not
   to use the Xlib directly.  If this was a valid statement
   then one could also argue:
   
      "programming in C/C++ is not a good idea unless you
       want to waste lots of time.  It's better to use an
       even more high-level language like VB(tm)" (gag!).

   Though 3rd party libs might be a good idea if one could
   find one with an intuitive interface.  One which I have
   yet to find.  I personally find Qt to be a very ugly
   implementation and would not consider using it.

   What is wrong with Motif?  Though Motif does cost money
   at least it is more supported.  And if one is not too
   fussy about detail LessTif (http://www.lesstif.org/) is
   an excellent free clone of it.


Patrick ...
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