The bug that haunts me... http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469278
The problem is Gdk is built on the notion of real subwindows we don't have those yet in directfb. So we have no notion of embedding a window into another. You can get the window ids of of two windows in two different processes and use http://www.directfb.org/docs/DirectFB_Reference_1_1/IDirectFBDisplayLayer_GetWindow.html To get the interfaces. Issues. Only the toplevel GdkDrawable are mapped to DIrectFB windows the rest are lightweight. DirectFB has no notion of embbedding we whould have to move/resize the two windows in synch this is a wm issue. In general I see no way to implement this in a sane manner using the current api we really need to extend the concepts of windows but Dennis and I have covered this in depth. I know exactly what needs to be done its a matter of not having the time/money to do it. In the mean time if some one wants to make custom embedding work in GTK what you need to do is fix any bugs in getting the window ids in the current code it probably works just people don't realize they need to walk the tree to get a DFBWindow id and they may have to map the window. Once you get the two window ids its your problem to keep them synced. In general to make Gtk/DirectFB work completely we are going to have create some interfaces that better mimic X11 and other systems to make porting easier. Real child windows for example. I'd suggest that problem is that Gtk is not really portable but.. I think that the current DirectFB api is fine for someone willing to write a custom window manager and widget set using directfb if your rolling your own then no problems. Porting or working with the existing X11 software code base is more difficult than it should be. Internally DirectFb is a lot more flexible and capable than the public api exposes so its not a matter of ability. Just some thoughts and maybe people will quit buggingme about gtksocket/plug. _______________________________________________ directfb-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev
