Re: using XDPS backend to display NextOpenStep apps remotely

2024-04-30 Thread Ondrej Florian
I managed to find out what an app is actually sending out to the display server. There is NXShowPS argument you can pass to any application which will print out any data coming back and forth. It is basically streaming postscript (as expected ;-). ...very cool to see in real-time. The problem

Re: using XDPS backend to display NextOpenStep apps remotely

2024-04-28 Thread Gregory Casamento
Sweet!!! Please share your progress. I would love to learn more. Gregory Casamento GNUstep Lead Developer / Black Lotus, Principal Consultant http://www.gnustep.org - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=352392 - Become a Patron

Re: using XDPS backend to display NextOpenStep apps remotely

2024-04-28 Thread Ondrej Florian
Thanks Gregory. Communicating between GNUstep and Next is actually not that bad. I managed to sync pasteboard by using simple TCP client/server and transferring strings, RTF or TIFF data as appropriate. The Previous has NFS server built-in, so working with files is just matter of transforming

Re: using XDPS backend to display NextOpenStep apps remotely

2024-04-28 Thread Gregory Casamento
Hey, I had given this some thought some years ago. Let's go over what you said you need... 1) running the next emulator headless... I think this could be accomplished, no problem. You could either use Previous or qemu (running the intel version of OPENSTEP). 2) Communication via DPS...

using XDPS backend to display NextOpenStep apps remotely

2024-04-28 Thread Ondrej Florian
Hi everyone, I am working on integrating the Next emulator (http://previous.alternative-system.com/) into the GSDE (https://github.com/onflapp/gs-desktop). I understand the original Next/OpenStep could display apps remotely (I guess that's where NXHost arg comes from). Does anyone know how