RE: Input and Display Status Update (3)

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

Harold,

Thanks.  I look forward to it.

Here is a pointer to a very good article on Win32 X-servers.  I and Peter
took a lot of ideas from it.  Only thing which needs to be followed and done
is
complete integration of X desktop with Win32 desktop.  The article discusses
how to successfully achieve it.

http://www.digital.com/DTJL03/DTJL03.HTM

Suhaib


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:Harold@compasstechnologies.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 9:39 AM
> To: Cygx (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: Input and Display Status Update (3)
>
>
> Yup, when I said I was packaging a tarball I meant that I
> would be sending
> it to you to put in the test directory.
>
> I did have to change the XWin.exe code to replace the
> DirectInput keyboard
> map with a map for the Virtual Key codes... not a huge
> change, but it was
> necessary.  Also, I've been working on cleaning up various
> bits of the code,
> making it easier to read, adding comments, etc...  I'll
> submit those changes
> when I am confident that we are on the right track for development.
>
> Harold
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suhaib Siddiqi [mailto:ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 9:41 AM
> To: 'Harold Hunt'; Cygx (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: Input and Display Status Update (3)
>
>
>
> Harold,
> As I suggested a few times, could you please send your
> binaries and changed
> code
> directly to me.  I will create a "test" directory at
> source.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree
> for other users to download and test.
>
> I and Peter had been planing to added Win32 desktop
> integration.  It can be
> added
> to xf_dx.dll without changing anything in XWIN.exe code.
> Peter had been
> busy, but if you
> want to look at it, I can send you the references directly
> from which we
> inspire the idea.
> Once that is done (achieved) we will be making XWIn
> comparable to other
> commercial X-servers.
>
> Suhaib
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Harold Hunt [mailto:Harold@compasstechnologies.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 9:30 AM
> > To: Cygx (E-mail)
> > Subject: RE: Input and Display Status Update (3)
> >
> >
> > Good call, I think I'm going to package up an update today
> > that people can
> > give me some feedback on.
> >
> > The reason I had thought about holding off is that I had to
> > make changes to
> > the XWin.exe code contained in the XFree86 cvs tree, in
> > addition to changes
> > to the xf_dx.dll code; I don't really want to commit any of
> > those changes
> > until we decide what direction the code should be taking
> > (i.e. get rid of
> > all DI code vs. detecting what sort of input to use, getting
> > rid of primary
> > surface code vs. detecting what display mode to use, etc.).
> > I think that
> > feedback as to the stability, performance, and usefullness of
> > the current
> > changes would be usefull in determining a direction for
> > further development.
> >
> > Well, enough talking, I'm going to see about throwing in some error
> > detection code and rolling up a testing tarball.
> >
> > Harold
> >
>