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RE: question about multiwindow mode and application icons


Hi Harold,

> Ralf,
>
> Did you see the patch from Earl yesterday?  It does nearly the same
> thing, except it uses a .ini file to relate the WM_CLASS to a .ico file.
>
I have seen it after sending my path and I'm happy to see this. I have merged my
changes already into this patch locally. :-)

> Harold
>
> Ralf Habacker wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've added a patch for an initial implementation of application
> icons support
> > based on the Testserver85 release (will probably work with the TestServer86
> > release)
> >
> > How does it work:
> >
> > The patch provides application depending icon loading in each
> xserver created
> > window. The decision, which icons is used, is based on the client
> application
> > name eg. for the application "xterm" an icon "xterm.ico" is searched in all
> > pathes found in the PATH environment variable.
> >
> > How is this patch implemented:
> >
> > Windows icon displaying is provided by Window classes through the
> > RegisterClass() call. Each window which belongs to a specific
> window class, will
> > be shown with the same icon. (Creating uniq Window Classes for any client
> > application with corresponding application icon was the basic idea
> to use for
> > icon displaying. Unfortunally I hadn't success requesting the
> WM_CLASS property
> > in winCreateWindowsWindow(), the xserver hangs in the select of
> xReplay(), which
> > I couldn't find.)
> >
> > The current implementation creates for each window a uniq window classes and
> > sets the icon in the WM_MAP event, which works at now.
> >
> > Notes: There may be some issues, which could be improved, so I've
> called this
> > patch as an initial patch. While working on this patch I recognized already
> > some, which I was unable to fix at now, sorry.
> >
> > Any comments ?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Ralf
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
>
>


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