XWin Architecture

[Harold L Hunt II]

Jeremy,

Jeremy Wilkins wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Mostly curious - I fired off the email a bit quickly, I found some of 
> the answers in the contributors guide later on, rtfm would've been a 
> fair reply.

No problem... anything I can do to rope you in to working on some new 
features?  :)

> I've been following the Y-windows mailing list where they talked about 
> about an X compatibility layer, I was just considering how this would be 
> done. I doubt I'd have the time to implement it. Since I use cygwin/x a 
> lot seemed like a good template.

Interesting.

> After a bit of hunting I found the miext/rootless code, I've been 
> struggling to understand the Objective C code using it though. I'd be 
> curious to read Torrey's draft on how it works (obviously I wouldn't 
> redistribute it).

Something isn't right here.  I haven't seen Objective C in the 
miext/rootless code and it is compiled with gcc, not an Objective C 
compiler... are you sure you are looking at a publically released 
version of the code for all platforms?  I just took a look at 
rootlessWindow.c and it reads like straight C to me.  There may be a few 
files that are conditionally compiled for Mac OS/X that use Objective C, 
in which case you could ignore those.

Harold