Basic Graphics Programming With The XCB Library

1. Introduction
2. The client and server model of the X window system
3. GUI programming: the asynchronous model
4. Basic XCB notions
   1. The X Connection
   2. Requests and replies: the Xlib killers
   3. The Graphics Context
   4. Object handles
   5. Memory allocation for XCB structures
   6. Events
5. Using XCB-based programs
   1. Installation of XCB
   2. Compiling XCB-based programs
6. Opening and closing the connection to an X server
7. Checking basic information about a connection
8. Creating a basic window - the "hello world" program
9. Drawing in a window
   1. Allocating a Graphics Context
   2. Changing the attributes of a Graphics Context
   3. Drawing primitives: point, line, box, circle,...
10. X Events
    1. Registering for event types using event masks
    2. Receiving events: writing the events loop
    3. Expose events
    4. Getting user input
       1. Mouse button press and release events
       2. Mouse movement events
       3. Mouse pointer enter and leave events
       4. The keyboard focus
       5. Keyboard press and release events
    5. X events: a complete example
11. Handling text and fonts
    1. The Font structure
    2. Opening a Font
    3. Assigning a Font to a Graphic Context
    4. Drawing text in a drawable
    5. Complete example
12. Windows hierarchy
    1. Root, parent and child windows
    2. Events propagation
13. Interacting with the window manager
    1. Window properties
    2. Setting the window name and icon name
    3. Setting preferred window size(s)
    4. Setting miscellaneous window manager hints
    5. Setting an application's icon
    6. Obeying the delete-window protocol
14. Simple window operations
    1. Mapping and unmapping a window
    2. Configuring a window
    3. Moving a window around the screen
    4. Resizing a window
    5. Changing windows stacking order: raise and lower
    6. Iconifying and de-iconifying a window
    7. Getting informations about a window
15. Using colors to paint the rainbow
    1. Color maps
    2. Allocating and freeing Color Maps
    3. Allocating and freeing a color entry
    4. Drawing with a color
16. X Bitmaps and Pixmaps
    1. What is a X Bitmap ? An X Pixmap ?
    2. Loading a bitmap from a file
    3. Drawing a bitmap in a window
    4. Creating a pixmap
    5. Drawing a pixmap in a window
    6. Freeing a pixmap
17. Messing with the mouse cursor
    1. Creating and destroying a mouse cursor
    2. Setting a window's mouse cursor
    3. Complete example
18. Translation of basic Xlib functions and macros
    1. Members of the Display structure
       1. ConnectionNumber
       2. DefaultScreen
       3. QLength
       4. ScreenCount
       5. ServerVendor
       6. ProtocolVersion
       7. ProtocolRevision
       8. VendorRelease
       9. DisplayString
       10. BitmapUnit
       11. BitmapBitOrder
       12. BitmapPad
       13. ImageByteOrder
    2. ScreenOfDisplay related functions
       1. ScreenOfDisplay
       2. DefaultScreenOfDisplay
       3. RootWindow / RootWindowOfScreen
       4. DefaultRootWindow
       5. DefaultVisual / DefaultVisualOfScreen
       6. DefaultGC / DefaultGCOfScreen
       7. BlackPixel / BlackPixelOfScreen
       8. WhitePixel / WhitePixelOfScreen
       9. DisplayWidth / WidthOfScreen
       10. DisplayHeight / HeightOfScreen
       11. DisplayWidthMM / WidthMMOfScreen
       12. DisplayHeightMM / HeightMMOfScreen
       13. DisplayPlanes / DefaultDepth / DefaultDepthOfScreen / PlanesOfScreen
       14. DefaultColormap / DefaultColormapOfScreen
       15. MinCmapsOfScreen
       16. MaxCmapsOfScreen
       17. DoesSaveUnders
       18. DoesBackingStore
       19. EventMaskOfScreen
    3. Miscellaneaous macros
       1. DisplayOfScreen
       2. DisplayCells / CellsOfScreen