Hi David

Okay I've posted the code on the review board http://review.etoileos.com/r/135/ 
.

Going on what I was mentioning before about being more synchronous, I  
think there are points where we could safely add more xcb_flush calls  
otherwise we sometimes I get weird errors.

Cheers
Chris

On 14/03/2010, at 23:47 PM, David Chisnall wrote:

> Hi Christopher,
>
> I wrote Project Manager (or, more accurately, I started writing  
> Project Manager and got distracted).  The license should be MIT.  It  
> should have been already mapping and unmapping windows, but not  
> doing anything else (no decorations, no handling input, no window  
> moving).
>
> If you've got some patches and want to keep working on it, that's  
> great - it keeps slipping further and further down my TODO list.   
> Can you put your patches into the review board (http://review.etoileos.com 
> )?
>
> David
>
> On 14 Mar 2010, at 07:01, Christopher Armstrong wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I was poking about ProjectManager in the SVN repository. I was having
>> problems with it (it wouldn't render anything except a fuzzy bright
>> purple screen for me) so I decided to look into it and ended up
>> starting again with the existing code and expanding the XCB framework
>> that was there. I've got it to the point where it seems it will map
>> and unmap windows, but not handle window decorations or the root
>> desktop (I'm stuck on that one at the monment). I used xcompmgr as a
>> guide as it seems to work well enough and is pretty simple,  
>> although I
>> still need to port some stuff over from it (especially support for
>> transparent windows and some stuff I left out because I didn't know
>> what it did).
>>
>> I've been developing and testing it with Xephyr, xterm and xclock.
>> Gorm seems to start up and display in it but there are these big  
>> black
>> boxes (I'm thinking hidden or unmapped windows) that appear too.
>>
>> I want to post the code, but the original code was unlicenced. I
>> assume its going to be MIT or something. I'm also unsure who wrote  
>> it.
>> Once that is clarified, I'm happy to add the headers to the source
>> code files, and write a quick AUTHORS and COPYING file.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Christopher Armstrong
>> carmstr...@fastmail.com.au
>>
>>
>>
>>
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