Author Topic: Windows and X API?  (Read 842 times)

TheQuirk

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Windows and X API?
« on: 16 June 2002, 01:21 »
Is the API for X like the one in windows? As in, X passes a message to the program telling the program everything the user does..?

[ June 15, 2002: Message edited by: TheQuirk ]


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« Reply #1 on: 17 June 2002, 17:50 »
it's uncomparable .... X is network orientated (i.e. a display client doesn't have to be on the same server as a display server)
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Windows and X API?
« Reply #2 on: 17 June 2002, 23:31 »
all right, thanks.

now to figure out how t o make graphical linux applications =\.

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« Reply #3 on: 18 June 2002, 12:15 »
use Qt if you want to write GPL applications, if you code nicely it's even platform independant.

you could ofcourse learn the X windowing toolkit, however I, personally, find it to be cumbersome and archaic.

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« Reply #4 on: 18 June 2002, 22:04 »
if I had to choose between GTK and Qt I'd have to think about 2 seconds .... wait ... maybe 1.5  ;)
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