that works without hacks, is portable and of general use for the gtk community:
I would like to implement a pixbuf or pixmap (still not sure what the difference is) rendering backend
for gtk. it will be similar to the Linux-fb backend, but more like the DirectFB backend (not because it will
be hardware accelerated, but because it will have an own window-manager). The purpose of this backend
will be the possibility to render gtk-widgets with all kinds of 2D/3D APIs (OpenGL, DirectX, SDL,
win32-GDI, what ever), that is supporting drawing of bitmaps (direct or as textures). Also i would implement
methods that have to be called by the host-application to pass keyboard and mouse events to the Backend. So GTK will be embedded into a wider range of Applications and will be of more general use for Full-Screen
VR and Game-Applications that need to render their GUI with another API than with the ones already
supported by GTK.
So i end up with some questions:
A the moment i think it should be enough to implement the gdk runtime library. is it possible to tell GTK to use another
GDK-runtime without recompile?
what will by interface look like, what methods are called/required by GTK applications.
will theme-engines still work? i think wimp will not work, because it is not using GDK for drawing (?) what is with others
especially the pixmap/pixbuf theme engine?
Anything that points me into the right direction is welcome.
thanks in regard Benjamin - thronerbe[at]gmx.de _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
