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RE: X client wrapper for Win apps?
- From: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, 'Franz Wolfhagen ' <FRANZW at dk dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 11:42:09 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: RE: X client wrapper for Win apps?
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
--- Stuart Adamson <stuart.adamson@evolution.net> wrote:
> > 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).
Now if we could only get the MingW/W32api folks to provide DDK import
libraries, headers, and means to build vxd's, we'd be all set :-).
Cheers,
Nicholas
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