Ingo Krabbe wrote:
>
>On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Paul Davis wrote:
>
>>> I'm writing an app using xlib, but I need some buttons and menus.
>>>
>>you should use a proper toolkit. nobody uses xlib on its own these days
>>unless they are themselves writing a toolkit.
>>
>
>I'm interested in this topic too. It would be nice to write some modules
>which aren't specified as gtk widgets or other gtk objects. Assume you
>write an application with a proprietary internet protocol. You surely want
>to open this protocol to any toolkit. So we need a mixed event handling,
>one for our module and one for lets say a gtk application.
>
>X isn't far away from such a network event handler since you can even
>select on the filedescriptor to the X-Server in Xlib.
>
>>>Can I mix my own event loop (while(true) { XNextEvent(Display *,
>>> XEvent*); switch(event.type) ...})
>>>with Gtk+'s main loop?
>>>
>>No.
>>
>
>Aren't there functions in gtk which, like XNextEvent select exactly one event
>from the gtk event loop and dispatch it ? Of course we have to care about gtk
>not catching our events. Shouldn't that be easy to distinguish by opening the
>DISPLAY two times ? That may not be very, optimized but shouldn't it work ?
>I will surely track this problem down the next months.
>
>>> Can I mix bare Xlib Window with Gtk+ widgets?
>>>
>>Sometimes, but its not easy and there are many pitfalls.
>>
>>--p
>>
>
>So lets try it:
>
> init gtk ... create some widgets ...
> init Xlib Display ... create some windows ...
> while ( !exit_application )
> {
> Try first event source ... handle and dispatch events
> Try second event source ... and so on ...
> }
>
>Why shouldn't this work ? The two parts don't hurt each other ?
>
>CU INGO
>
>
>
>
Hi,
Thank you all for advance. Basically, I'd like to see that gtk+ is
friendly to bare Xlib. (like Motif?). But I don't have a clear idea for
now, because I'm actually not familiar with gtk+. Well, I'll try to play
with it.
Davix
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