Creating an x windows dialog box
 

hi,

i am trying to create a dialog box in xwindows, i have no experience of this what so ever and basically i am starting out.

is there a guide/how-to availible on creating a window in X?

thanks
ant

You can't make a dialog box with 'pure' X. It is possible, but it's rather a hard thing. There are libraries allowing to make it really easy, plus programs allowing you to draw your dialog boxes (the program writes the code for you). I recommend QT Designer for QT and glade for GTK. They're included in Mandrake, but you may not have them installed.

thanks,

the QT and gtk thing are kind of what i meant, sorry i did not make my question clear.

i never new there was an 'X' language though !

thanks i will look into the qt and GTK ones. i have found jumping straght in is the best way to learn things ( at least for me anyway :) ), do you have any examples of QT or GTK?

i presume that QT and GTK are like a shell script and require an interpreter?

thanks

antken

You'll probably want to look into documentation as well. The online QT docs are quite good, plus there is Dahlheimer's book from O'Reilly. For GTK, I liked Pennington's book from New Riders (both of which seem to be out of stock at Bookpool, but you can find them somewhere).

Steve

QT (yuck) and GTK (mmmmmm) are not languages, they are libraries which are used via a number of conventional programming lanuages, C, perl, c++, python etc....

Examples (and more things) should be in their 'devel' packages. But I recommend to try examples from manuals/documentation, first. They're smaller and easier to understand.