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RE: X client wrapper for Win apps?
- From: Stuart Adamson <stuart dot adamson at evolution dot net>
- To: 'Franz Wolfhagen ' <FRANZW at dk dot ibm dot com>,"'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com '" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 13:41:28 +0100
- Subject: RE: X client wrapper for Win apps?
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> One method is to provide a 'mirror driver' to intercept the all calls
> from GDI to the display driver (this should be the method used by
> Netmeeting).
But that requires a device driver doesn't it? (i.e. code that runs in
kernel mode). Hooking into user32.dll only requires code that runs in
user mode - so is a lot easier to get right.
> As the windwos sample code probably is limited by some licensing issues
> the driver probably has to be developed without this code - but IANAL.
The DDK is a free download (it does say you need VC 5 or 6 to compile
drivers - I've never tried with gcc).
Stuart