Argh.
The mail to the GTK+ people bounced. It seems you have to subscribe to the
mailing list in order to mail them, and I'm not.
Could somebody else please forward it to them?
Thanks,
Asger
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> From: Asger Alstrup Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Feature request to enable toolkits coexistence
> Date: 2. april 1999 10:43
>
> Dear GTK+ people!
>
> I have a feature request for you:
> Could you provide a
>
> gdk_init_on_display(Display* display)
>
> or
>
> gtk_init_on_display(Display* display)
>
> method?
>
> We need this in the LyX team when we want to port LyX to use GTK+. In the
> transition phase, we want to link to both XForms and GTK+, but that seems to
be
> impossible without this feature. Details on why explained below.
>
> Thanks for considering it.
>
> Greets,
>
> Asger Alstrup
> P.S. Please cc any replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED], because I'm not
> subscribed to your list.
>
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Toolkits coexistence
> > Date: 2. april 1999 04:02
> >
> > The present plan of the toolkit independence assumes that there is a
> > transition stage of toolkits coexistence. Unfortunately I found that
> > none, except for one, namely xforms, toolkits are written for such
> > a situation in mind, it causes a nasty unreliable event loop handling.
> > As I proposed a few months ago, it is possible to merge multiple event
> > loops, essentially as follows,
> >
> > void LyXGUI::runTime()
> > {
> > if (!gui)
> > return;
> >
> > fd_set rset, wset, eset;
> > int maxfd;
> > FD_ZERO(&rset);
> > FD_ZERO(&wset);
> > FD_ZERO(&eset);
> >
> > // Here comes the probelmatic lines!
> > maxfd = ConnectionNumber(display);
> > FD_SET(maxfd, &rset);
> >
> > while (!finished) {
> > int count = select(1 + maxfd, &rset, &wset, &eset, NULL);
> > for (count; count >0; count--) {
> > // There must be error checks here.
> > fl_check_forms();
> > gtk_main_iteration_do(FALSE);
> > QApplication::processNextEvent(FALSE);
> > }
> > }
> > }
> >
> > What's wrong with the above is now obvious. We have *multiple*
> > connections to the same X server! A quick fix like
> >
> > int fl_fd = ConnectionNumber(fl_display);
> > int gdk_fd = ConnectionNumber(gdk_display);
> > FD_SET(fl_fd, &rset);
> > FD_SET(gdk_fd, &rset);
> > maxfd = ((fl_fd > gdk_fd) ? fl_fd : gdk_fd);
> >
> > makes the event loop very unreliable. kLyX works becuase Qt has
> >
> > QApplication::QApplication( Display* dpy )
> >
> > But both gdk_init() and fl_initialize() call XOpenDisplay() and
> > there is neither gdk_init_on_display(Display* display) nor
> > gtk_init_on_display(Display* display).
> >
> > Is it not possible to request such feature in gtk?
> >
> > Regards,
> > SMiyata
