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LGPL License Option Added to Qt

(LGPL License Option Added to Qt) Espoo, Finland — Nokia today announced that its Qt cross-platform User Interface (UI) and application framework for desktop and embedded platforms will be available under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1 license from the release of Qt 4.5, scheduled for March 2009. Previously, Qt has been made [...]

X Windows Programming in C++: Part III

X Windows Programming in C++: Part I X Windows Programming in C++: Part II Continuing with our task of creating a C++ version of basicwin.c, we next look at XCreateSimpleWindow. Here’s some code snippets from basicwin.c showing the use of XCreateSimpleWindow:

X Windows Programming in C++: Part II

X Windows Programming in C++: Part I Continuing with our task of creating a C++ version of basicwin.c, we next look at XOpenDisplay / XCloseDisplay. Here’s some code snippets from basicwin.c showing the use of these functions:

X Windows Programming in C++: Part I

Years ago, I did quite a bit X Windows programming. When I started developing X Windows software, I was also learning C++ (this was a long time ago). Unfortunately , the X Windows system I was developing software for did not have a C++ compiler. This led to some frustration since using C++ would have [...]