The title of this book, Grokking the GIMP, is drawn from Robert A. Heinlein's classic science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land. His story is about Valentine Michael Smith, the only survivor of the first human expedition to Mars and raised from infancy by Martians. The rescue mission arrives twenty years later to bring a young man knowing nothing of his own kind back to earth. The story recounts his repatriation and his adventures as he comes to grok the human race and his place in it.

Table of Contents

1. Cygwin Overview

What is it?
Quick Start Guide for those more experienced with Windows
Quick Start Guide for those more experienced with UNIX
Are the Cygwin tools free software?
A brief history of the Cygwin project
Highlights of Cygwin Functionality

Introduction
Supporting both Windows NT and 9x
Permissions and Security
File Access
Text Mode vs. Binary Mode
ANSI C Library
Process Creation
Signals
Sockets
Select

2. Setting Up Cygwin

This tutorial is the first in a series of "would-be" tutorials about graphical programming in the X window environment. By itself, it is useless. A real X programmer usually uses a much higher level of abstraction, such as using Motif (or its free version, lesstiff), GTK, QT and similar libraries. However, we need to start somewhere. More than this, knowing how things work down below is never a bad idea.

The first few chapters in this book provide a brief introduction to Tkinter. After reading this, you should have a fair grasp of the Tkinter fundamentals.

Table of Contents
1. What's Tkinter?
2. Hello, Tkinter
3. Hello, Again
4. Tkinter Classes
5. Widget Configuration
6. Widget Styling
7. Events and Bindings
8. Application Windows
9. Standard Dialogs
10. Dialog Windows
11. The BitmapImage Class
12. The Button Widget
13. The Canvas Widget
14. The Canvas Arc Item
15. The Canvas Bitmap Item

This book is intended for users with programming experience who are interested in customizing their personal AIXwindows environment as well as for experienced C programmers who are designing user interfaces for user communities.

Chapter 1. AIXwindows Overview for Programmers

Chapter 2. AIXwindows Window Manager Overview

Chapter 3. Using the AIXwindows Customizing Tool

Chapter 4. AIXwindows Xlib Library

Chapter 5. Using Extensions in AIXwindows

Chapter 6. AIXwindows Screen Capture Library