On Tuesday 06 April 2004 13:59, Neundorf, Alexander wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking around for some more information about picogui. > Would be cool if you could shed some light on me :-) > > 1) I read in the archive that pgserver can be used as a lib so that tcp/ip > is not required. This sounds very good to me. How do I achieve this ? Is > there a configure-switch or do I have to fiddle around manually ?
Haven't tried this myself. > 2) I need direct access to the display framebuffer from my application. Is > there a good way to do this ? Does this require work within picogui ? I > read about the pgBitmap and shared memory and stuff which sounds already > promising. But when used as a lib pgserver is in the same address space as > the application. Any hints on this ? Basically I need access to the > framebuffer to copy a "background" picture there (which has to be updated > several times per second) Maybe you can use driver events for this? You could send an event to your displaydriver, which is then triggered to display a bitmap that you put somewhere. > 3) Can I have widgets overlapping other widgets (or overlapping the > background or the background widget) ? Does picogui always use the full > screen ? You can specify the size of your widgets. > 4) How is the i18n support ? I read unicode is supported, ft2 is supported. > Are there already functions to switch the language during runtime ? (ala > QApplication::installTranslator()?) There is no language support, but you can use GNU gettext on the clientside. Regards, Pieter ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Pgui-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel
