RE: Multiple Windows

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

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