I'd like such a function myself too, sometimes it is useful to access the *real* native window regardless of the widgetset you use (GTK, Qt, Carbon, etc).
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 11:32 AM, zeljko <zel...@holobit.net> wrote: > On Monday 05 of November 2012 11:24:41 Michael Van Canneyt wrote: >> On Mon, 5 Nov 2012, zeljko wrote: >> > On Monday 05 of November 2012 10:35:45 Michael Van Canneyt wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> I'm trying to embed the VLC player (using the videolan DLLS) in a LCL >> >> application. On Windows, this works fine. On Linux, this does not work. >> >> >> >> The reason is that the VideoLan library expects the native window >> >> handle. On Windows, TWinControl.Handle provides this. >> >> >> >> On Linux, TWinControl.Handle returns the GTK widget pointer if I'm using >> >> GTK. (I imagine it will be something similar when using Qt) >> >> >> >> How can I get access to the low-level X window handle (id) of a >> >> TWinControl on Linux ? >> > >> > It's not so problematic. Look at qtx11.inc in lcl/widgetset/qt or in >> > gtk2widgetset.inc (there's IFDEF X11 or similar) which gets X11 TWindow >> > from GdkWindow. >> >> Actually, it is in gtk2proc, FormToX11Window :-) >> >> Thanks. >> >> The function could accept a TWinControl instead of TCustomForm I would >> think. Maybe an overloaded version can be added. The code is the same. >> >> I'd even suggest adding a GetNativeHandle : Pointer to TWinControl, >> but I suspect that will encounter some resistance :-) > > Yes, I'm suspicious about it too :) > > zeljko > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus