From fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Wed Feb 25 18:49:21 2004 Subject: Re: [MiNT] gtk2 and gem/vdi (was: Re: X server bug?) From: Mark Duckworth To: mint@fishpool.com In-Reply-To: References: <1077671592.18152.3.camel@pikachu.atari-source.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1077730837.18154.18.camel@pikachu.atari-source.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:40:38 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Delivered-To: mint@fishpool.com Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mduckworth@atari-source.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 02:50, Standa Opichal wrote: > Hi Mark! > > Good work! > > On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Mark Duckworth wrote: > > > mduckworth@pikachu mduckworth $ gtk-demo > > Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on display "washi:0.0". > > Well, seems rather like a feature. Looks like we don't have the Xrender > compiled in... > > > a falcon native gtk2 app displayed on the falcon. I think it's unlikely > > that this is a gtk2 bug because they don't tend to go unnoticed for very > > long. The bug seems to be in the gtk code to find out which screen is > > the xroot_window. Any ideas on where to start. Anyone interested in > > looking at the code I have? > > Perhaps it is the time to get into gem/vdi instead X11? What is that > status/intentions regarding this? > > best regards > > STan > > The intentions are there and strong, but the status is that it hasn't started to happen yet. Looks basically like gtk has a series of functions to draw a rectangle, ellipse, etc, and these would all simply need to be the vdi equivalent. Probably the biggest problem would be pixmaps. I do wish our X server could handle current applications too though. Or of course that these current applications are bug free (if the situation is vice versa). Thanks, Mark