any good API references????

[Jüš† ä gü¥]

I would like to have ALL of the following APIs

Win16, Win32, OpenGL, DirectX (9.0 is ideal), and XWindows

Now, I can find enough information on Win16 and Win32 API.

What I really need are good sources for XWindows API (I have found a grand total of NONE), and OpenGL API (I found a couple, but they are all heavily nested html-type things. What I really want/need is either .pdf or .ps format----that way I can view them WITHOUT having to be connected to the Internet), and the API for the latest DirectX (or any API for DirectX is better than nothing)

Thanks

[nukes]

Well, if you want to do X11 programming, don't learn the X11 API itself. If you want to write something other than a WM, then learn fltk, gtk+, or qt.
www.gtk.org
www.trolltech.com
www.tldp.org
Do a search on Kazaa or something for the docs you want, there may be something on there.

[jkrohn]

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Well, if you want to do X11 programming, don't learn the X11 API itself.

That entirely depends on what he is trying to accomplish. Have you looked through the documentation on the Xfree 86 website?

All I could find there was the nested HTML refrences. Perhaps you could contact the project and inquire about a better reference sheet?

Jkrohn

[Jüš† ä gü¥]

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Originally posted by nukes
Well, if you want to do X11 programming, don't learn the X11 API itself. If you want to write something other than a WM, then learn fltk, gtk+, or qt.
www.gtk.org
www.trolltech.com
www.tldp.org
Do a search on Kazaa or something for the docs you want, there may be something on there.

Actually, I like to get as low-level as possible Thanks guys! ...and jkrohn hit it right on the head!

To me, I view any sort of "wrapper" classes/functions to some underlying functionality as completely unnecessary, tedious (as any sort of higher-level API would be incompatible with any other higher-level APIs (unless, of course, it was a subset)), and not to mention that just adds bulk onto bulk (depending on how heavily nested the APIs are) onto your programs, which is definitely NOT what I am aiming for

Basically, I do not appreciate higher-level things placed in front of me which I could have easily created from lower-level components.

On that same note, I see absolutely no purpose for XML, as it isn't even functional by itself. It requires an XSLT in order to even do anything---and that just translates it into HTML! So why not just use HTML to begin with???

Also, why use C++ when you can use C? It only adds bulk I'm no fan of OOP (Yes, I can use it quite competently. I just think it looks ugly, makes code much much larger than it ought to be, and, quite frankly, creates slower programs than what you get from structured programming)

Basically, I like the lowest common denominator of everything

....so then I bet you are going to ask my why I didn't say "Why use C when you can use assembly?" Assembly is great!! It is the best, really, but C is THE best HLL as it is only one step above asm (and you can always inline your asm into it) Plus, C is slightly easier to work with, a hell of a lot easier to debug, and you can always code in C, force the compiler to produce asm output, and then hand-fix that up to perfection

Pascal is equally good as C, I will grant.

Anyway, I found what I was looking for as far as XWindows reference, though it is gonna be a bit of a pain to peruse through all the files. (and to think it was right under my nose----should have thought of this ages ago!)

I simply decided to look in my /usr/X11R6/man/man3 directory PAYDIRT! Has a separate man page for each API function in there. (That also took care of finding an OpenGL API, as those functions are in there too)

I guess all I need now is a good DirectX API.

[Jüš† ä gü¥]

BTW, I just loathe ObjectWindows and MFC *shudders*