Hi all. Tim wrote:
| Bill, Camm, | | It appears that there is a library ntxlib which is a dll that | translates x11 calls to the windows api. Here is the link: | http://paramvir_likhari.tripod.com/mcse/unix/unix2nt.htm | This library has reared it's head on this forum more than once now - I have studiously ignored those mentions for personal strategic reasons. There are at least three different versions available on the web as far as I know. At risk of being a wet blanket I can say that this path (which I, Malcolm Blue, Glynn Clements and others took to build a graphics server for GRASS several years ago) is not as easy as it sounds. We tweaked and poked and prodded and added new bits and the server based on that library worked quite well, up to a point, but the library offered incomplete Xlib coverage and was a continual source of problems whenever anyone added something new to the server; that is, there was always more work to be done. This path would be profitable if someone knowledgable in both Xlib and Win32 GDI choose to take the library under their wing and run with it as their personal pet project (as we originally planned), but in reality we all preferred to work on other stuff and ultimately (in the case of GRASS) I think it would have been easier to write from scratch a special Win32 API version of the GRASS graphics server. And yes, I did try to use the improved version of that library with the GCL Xlib binding a couple of years ago (and several very simple Xlib C examples) and gave up for half forgotten reasons - crashes, incomplete semantics and available functions etc. For that special someone willing to take on that library, here is the improved GRASS source tree version: http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/grass/src/display/devices/windows/ Cheers Mike Thomas. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
