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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: TheQuirk on 16 June 2002, 01:21

Title: Windows and X API?
Post by: TheQuirk 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 ]

Title: Windows and X API?
Post by: badkarma 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)

Title: Windows and X API?
Post by: TheQuirk on 17 June 2002, 23:31

all right, thanks.

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

Title: Windows and X API?
Post by: badkarma on 18 June 2002, 12:15

use Qt (http://www.trolltech.com) 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.

[ June 18, 2002: Message edited by: BadKarma ]

Title: Windows and X API?
Post by: badkarma 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  ;)