RE: Multiple Windows

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

I was doing a google search and came across a source code for Xserver.  It
is worthwhile looking at it.  It is very basic and written specifically for
MUD.  However, it can deal with Multiwindow issue.
If you are interested, let me I can email you the code.

Suhaib




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 8:00 PM
> To: Suhaib Siddiqi; 'Cygwin-Xfree'
> Subject: RE: Multiple Windows
> 
> Suhaib,
> 
> > Sure :-)  If anyone can rewrite that ntxlib which can be used
> > instead of X11
> > libraries, then Xserver won't be needed. You literally compile all
> the X
> > clients on Windows using it and run them as native Win32
> application.
> 
> I think you misunderstood me.  All I'm talking about doing is
> finishing the
> Native GDI engine in the current Cygiwn/XFree86 server, which
> translates X
> graphics calls into Win32 GDI graphics calls.  ntxlib has a lot of the
> functions implemented, such as XDrawString, XFillRectangle,
> XClearArea,
> XDrawArc, XFillArc, and XDrawLine.  ntxlib also has a function called
> NT_set_rop that converts X raster operations into GDI raster
> operations,
> such as converting GXorInverted to R2_MERGENOTPEN.
> 
> > Did you look into Peter Busch Dlls, which are in drivers directory?
> I can
> > send you his server code which does multiple Windows, but is very
> buggy.
> 
> I spent about a month or two working with the code that you are
> referring
> to.  There never was much there, and that development direction is
> dead, as
> it required inserting a fake video driver into Windows to expose the
> framebuffer.  I'm sure that any windowing code was a hack, so I don't
> think
> it'll be of much worth to even look at it again...  Sorry, I was not
> impressed by what I saw in that source code...
> 
> Harold