RE: How to start messing around with creating a rootless mode...

2002-06-13 Thread Robert Collins
ent: Thursday, 13 June 2002 11:53 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: How to start messing around with creating a > rootless mode... > > > Robert, > > I totally forgot that you had worked on a rootless mode. I'd > definitely be > intere

RE: How to start messing around with creating a rootless mode...

2002-06-13 Thread Harold Hunt
Robert, I totally forgot that you had worked on a rootless mode. I'd definitely be interested in seeing the patches. Thanks, Harold

RE: How to start messing around with creating a rootless mode...

2002-06-13 Thread Harold Hunt
Stuart, > > But on the overall, I don't think it's really the way to go. Again, I > > don't known much about X so it may not be reasonable but what about > > creating a Windows window for each X window? This would allow > each X App > > to appear in the taskbar like any Windows application. > >

RE: How to start messing around with creating a rootless mode...

2002-06-13 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Alan Hourihane > Sent: Thursday, 13 June 2002 11:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: How to start messing around with creating a > rootless mode... > > >

Re: How to start messing around with creating a rootless mode...

2002-06-13 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 10:57:44PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > Yes, but the X infrastructure for this is excellent. I had it mostly > working, but looking crap due to the decorations, and not choosing which > windows to show on the taskbar terribly cluefully. Alan has various > patches from me.

RE: How to start messing around with creating a rootless mode...

2002-06-13 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Stuart Adamson > Sent: Thursday, 13 June 2002 10:11 PM > It does seem like this might get a bit complex (we would have > to hold the > hwnd > of each window in the windows private and use that to

RE: How to start messing around with creating a rootless mode...

2002-06-13 Thread Stuart Adamson
> But on the overall, I don't think it's really the way to go. Again, I > don't known much about X so it may not be reasonable but what about > creating a Windows window for each X window? This would allow each X App > to appear in the taskbar like any Windows application. This is how eXceed

RE: How to start messing around with creating a rootless mode...

2002-06-09 Thread Jehan Something
>HOW MANY TIMEs DO I NEED TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST TO REALY GET OFF IT >??? I'm not the maintainer of this mailing list so I don't known why you send this message to me!! Go read http://cygwin.com/lists.html to see of you are doing it correctly and, if you do and it still doesn't work, to

RE: How to start messing around with creating a rootless mode...

2002-06-09 Thread Baruch Shpirer
HOW MANY TIMEs DO I NEED TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST TO REALY GET OFF IT ???

RE: How to start messing around with creating a rootless mode...

2002-06-09 Thread Harold Hunt
Sylvain, No, that article does not apply. That article applies to a C++ template library for COM called ATL. We obviously do not use ATL within Cygwin/XFree86. Furthermore, the CImage class does not apply to screens, rather, "CImage provides enhanced bitmap support, including the ability to l

Re: How to start messing around with creating a rootless mode...

2002-06-09 Thread Jehan
Harold Hunt wrote: > Now that we have the -nodecoration parameter we can start messing around > with making the some initial moves towards a rootless mode, just like > XDarwin. Here are some initial steps to take that would help you learn a > little about creating a rootless mode: [...] > If you

Re: How to start messing around with creating a rootless mode...

2002-06-09 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
> 1) Start off by simply overriding > PaintWindowBackground to paint a > transparent background to cause the X Windows (still > managed by a window > manager such as twm) to 'float' above the Windows > desktop when > Cygwin/XFree86 has the focus. > starting at search.microsoft.com gives : http:/

How to start messing around with creating a rootless mode...

2002-06-09 Thread Harold Hunt
Now that we have the -nodecoration parameter we can start messing around with making the some initial moves towards a rootless mode, just like XDarwin. Here are some initial steps to take that would help you learn a little about creating a rootless mode: 1) Start off by simply overriding PaintWi