Re: Draw on Xwindow directly without NSWindow

[Yen-Ju Chen]

On 4/29/06, Yen-Ju Chen <yjchenx@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/29/06, Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer@gmx.de> wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > I have been giving this some thought. Wouldn't it resolve your problem,
> > if we add to GNUstep an implementation of the method [NSWindow
> > initWithWindowRef:], where the window ref would be the X window?
> > This should give about the same results as your code, but in a well
> > defined way. The code inside of initWithWindowRef: would be a mixture of
> > the code from _initBackendWindow and
> > initWithContentRect:styleMask:backing:defer:screen:, where the size,
> > style, level, screen and backingstore information would be extracted
> > from the underlying X window by a new backend method, that would also
> > return a GNUstep window number.
> > For your special environment we need to ensure that the window
> > decoration handling is set correctly. Somehow we need to trick the x
> > backend as well as the gui code into thinking that the window
> > decoratione should not be handled at their level :-)
> >
> > I am willing to write this code, if you can provide a test application
> > for it, that is point me to the part of teh Azalea code that would use this.

 The other way is to provide a stripped-down version of x11 backend
 and its sole role is to connect drawing to any given xwindow.
 It's like a highway between drawing in AppKit and xwindow.
 Applications can load it as bundle and it will override most of the XGServer
 methods regarding to NSWindow.
 Anyway, I haven't find another way to go around.
 It is just a thought occured to me.

 Yen-Ju

[snip]

> >
> > Cheers
> > Fred
> >