On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> Christoph Egger wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> >
> > > Christoph Egger wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi!
> > > >
> > > > How about moving out the shm visual stuff of berlin into a generic library
> > > > helper?
> > > > This can be used by any GGI extensions and applications.
> > >
> > > I don't understand. There isn't much beside the stuff you see in the cube3d
> > > example as well. The rest is really berlin specific.
> > > What would you want to see in such an extension ?
> >
> > The generic parts of the cube3d and berlin stuff in it, so that other projects
> > can use shm visuals without doing the same work again and again.
>
> well, all there is to do, is decide the mode, create the visual, set two
> environment variables, and start the child application. The last step, i.e.
> the fork, is really nothing I'd want in an extension. Too much else might
> vary in this step (such as setting up a pipe and redirecting the std[in, out, err]
> etc. And the two environment variables really don't deserve an extension library...
The specific things can be done by a callback-function...
CU,
Christoph Egger
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