On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Adrian Ian Skilling wrote:

> I want to start programming in C++ for X windows.
> I don't know where to start. Which libraries should I
> use and which man pages should I look at. I have the
> X11dev set.
> 
> Also I have a few other questions.
> 
> 1. How do I read the mouse position.
> 2. How do I detect if a key is depressed on the keyboard.

These are not really RiscBSD questions, but X questions - you need a good
book on X programming.  Any good book will do, so long as it talks a bit
about Xlib (which you will inevitably have to use sometime) and probably
also one of the toolkits which provide a higher level interface to X.

> I intend to write a real-time realistic helicopter simulator
> for your information.

Interesting, but I would have thought that you would be better doing this
outside of X, perhaps using something like Peter Berg's graphics library.
X isn't exactly reknowned for its speed :-).

Ben.

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Department of Computer Science
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