Eh, I have just realized that I have replied directly to Phil Thompson, not to this list (this is because I have used unfamiliar webmail client). So this is our conversation:
*** Me: *** You can look at that example by Zack Rusin, it is very simple, here is code: http://ktown.kde.org/~zrusin/examples/argb.tar.bz2 (look at main.cpp) That Display instance come directly from xlib, it is created by XOpenDisplay: http://lxr.freedesktop.org/ident?i=XOpenDisplay In Python, I am using ctypes module to directly access xlib (libX11) and call XOpenDisplay. *** Phil: *** I meant, in the context of PyQt. PyQt needs to know about the type. *** Me: *** I can't help you much in this, I don't know much about ctypes, I have only learned it because I want to create ARGB windows with PyQt (and then I realized that I can't do it because PyQt doesn't support it). But you can try this code: ### Python code ### import ctypes class Display(ctypes.Structure): pass xlib = ctypes.CDLL('libX11.so.6') xlib.XOpenDisplay.restype = ctypes.POINTER(Display) xlib.XOpenDisplay.argtypes = [ctypes.c_char_p] display = xlib.XOpenDisplay(':0.0') ### End of Python code ### This will create 'display' object, which is pointer to 'Display' structure (which is derived from standard ctypes.Structure). But this is all I can tell you, as I said I don't know any details about this process, only that it works (I have tried creating window with pure xlib). Ctypes are standard module in python 2.5 (for Python 2.4 it is external module), so I think PyQt should support it. _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [email protected] http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
