Re: [gtk-list] Gtk & Xlib

["Daniel J. Kressin" <kressd11 sol acs uwosh edu>]

On Fri, 22 May 1998, Holger Eitzenberger wrote:

>Hi,
>    I exerciced through the GTK tutorial which was good as a starting
>point. First question: do i also need Xlib programming, e. g. to extend
>GTK or GDK? How does Xlib & GTK behave together, any difficulties?

Knowledge of Xlib isn't absolutely necessary to use GTK.  However, as
someone who started to learn Xlib/Xt and decided to switch to GTK, I have
found that knowing a little about Xlib makes it easier to decipher how
some of the not-so-well-documented functions in GTK/GDK work.  For
example, the colormap and drawing related things are essentially
simplified wrappers for the equivalent Xlib functions.

Dan 
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