X client wrapper for Win apps?

[Jehan]

Stuart Adamson wrote:
>>Every Windows draw command is translated into calls to a GDI 
>>driver. this
>>driver is either the driver of the graphics card or a 
>>printer. The people
>>from wine already have written a driver which exports a GDI 
>>interface and
>>maps all calls to X11. Maybe this is a starting point.
> 
> 
> But xfree86 will also be using this interface to draw to the screen (as 
> will the logon box etc).  I can see this becoming rather circular ....
> 
> You need to be able to set the GDI context per application.
> 
> Maybe the way forward is to filter calls to user32.dll (where most of the
> basic
> windowing functions end up).  By filtering I mean renaming user32.dll to
> user32-real.dll and writing your own user32.dll which either sends requests
> to
> X11 or to user32-real.dll, depending on the process id of the requesting
> process.

Oh nice! I'll then look forward to the new Windows service pack and the 
number of new posts in the mailing about XFree being broken after the 
upgrade.

But I have a better idea, replace the kernel32.dll with our own that 
will convert Windows calls into a Linux/BSD/Un*x calls. That way, 
instead of having Windows window showing in Xfree running in Windows, 
you'll just have Windows on top of Xfree. We would also have a perfect 
Unix layer for Windows then, we won't need Cygwin anymore, we would use 
Linux/BSD/Un*x directly. It will also add to the 
security/performance/whatever.

Oh wait, that's WINE isn't it? ;)

	Jehan