Re: [fpc-devel] Xlib and XCB: any plans?

2012-03-05 Thread Sven Barth
Am 04.03.2012 21:46, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: I wouldn't waste my time on XCB. XLib is not going to disappear. Plus Wayland is on it's way, which means you would probably have to change to that anyway. Wayland is not the same as X11. If one wants the CustomDrawn widgetset (or fpGUI for

Re: [fpc-devel] Xlib and XCB: any plans?

2012-03-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 5 March 2012 11:05, Sven Barth wrote: Wayland is not the same as X11. If one wants the CustomDrawn widgetset (or fpGUI for that matter) to support Wayland natively and not through a X11 server that runs on top of Wayland then one needs to use completely new bindings. I thought that is

Re: [fpc-devel] Xlib and XCB: any plans?

2012-03-05 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 05/03/2012 11:36, Graeme Geldenhuys ha scritto: On 5 March 2012 11:05, Sven Barth wrote: Wayland is not the same as X11. If one wants the CustomDrawn widgetset (or fpGUI for that matter) to support Wayland natively and not through a X11 server that runs on top of Wayland then one needs to

Re: [fpc-devel] Xlib and XCB: any plans?

2012-03-05 Thread ik
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 22:18, Sven Barth pascaldra...@googlemail.com wrote: On 04.03.2012 18:42, Giuliano Colla wrote: I'm attempting to contribute to the CustomDrawn components project for Lazarus. One of the target platforms is X, and we may take advantage of the X and Xlib units of fpc.

Re: [fpc-devel] Xlib and XCB: any plans?

2012-03-05 Thread Sven Barth
Am 05.03.2012 11:36, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: On 5 March 2012 11:05, Sven Barth wrote: Wayland is not the same as X11. If one wants the CustomDrawn widgetset (or fpGUI for that matter) to support Wayland natively and not through a X11 server that runs on top of Wayland then one needs to use

[fpc-devel] Xlib and XCB: any plans?

2012-03-04 Thread Giuliano Colla
I'm attempting to contribute to the CustomDrawn components project for Lazarus. One of the target platforms is X, and we may take advantage of the X and Xlib units of fpc. However Xorg discourages the usage of Xlib for new developments, and suggests the usage of XCB instead. What's the

Re: [fpc-devel] Xlib and XCB: any plans?

2012-03-04 Thread Sven Barth
On 04.03.2012 18:42, Giuliano Colla wrote: I'm attempting to contribute to the CustomDrawn components project for Lazarus. One of the target platforms is X, and we may take advantage of the X and Xlib units of fpc. However Xorg discourages the usage of Xlib for new developments, and suggests the

Re: [fpc-devel] Xlib and XCB: any plans?

2012-03-04 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 4 March 2012 19:42, Giuliano Colla wrote: Xlib units of fpc. However Xorg discourages the usage of Xlib for new developments, and suggests the usage of XCB instead. What's the situation of fpc in respect of XCB? Why, when the current XLib already uses XCB. The current XLib implementation

Re: [fpc-devel] Xlib and XCB: any plans?

2012-03-04 Thread zeljko
On Sunday 04 of March 2012 18:42:15 Giuliano Colla wrote: I'm attempting to contribute to the CustomDrawn components project for Lazarus. One of the target platforms is X, and we may take advantage of the X and Xlib units of fpc. However Xorg discourages the usage of Xlib for new