On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 20:27:41 +0000 (GMT) chinlu chinawa <chinluchinawa@xxxxxxxxxxx> babbled: > Hello, > > Yes, sorry, I'm talking about the window manager, why? and why don't you > think a xml configuration file ok? xml config, while human readable and extendible, is 1. "bloated" for disk space needs. 2. is very inefficient at inlining binary data (eg you want to inline the pixel data for an icon along with metadata) 3. is actually very slow for a computer to parse, compared to much mroe simplistic binary config. everything needs to be parsed and checked as it needs to handle escapes, freeformt formatting etc. i'm not a fan of xml myself :) > I'm not a proper programmer or something like that, but I've used xml, > toghether with a dtd, so don't have to spend time writting code for parsing > an validating a config file, that's the kind of things xml is for, isn't? yes. but it isn't the most efficient way to do it. :) anyway - stick with what you have. > (appart from the documentation process itself) I'm trying now to make use of > Xft, been reading this: http://www.keithp.com/~keithp/render/Xft.tutorial never tried - but i have used xrender directly and it does work. mind you beware you are likely to find performance issues with xrender. they may vary from neglegible to dysmally slow, sometimes it may be fast. sometimes. > But cannot get to render text as the doc says it should be. > > Been trying to render a rect and text over it, but even when the server > seems to properly access to the font, it doesn't render it. > Here goes the relevant piece of code: > > pat = XftNameParse ("adobe-myriad:size=16:normal"); > match = XftFontMatch(display, DefaultScreen(display), pat, &status); > result = XftFontOpenPattern(display, match); > if ((result == 0) && match) { > printf("no\n"); > XftPatternDestroy(match); > } else { > printf("yes\n"); > } > > d = XftDrawCreate (display, win, visual, colmap); > > color.red=65355; > color.blue=65355; > color.green=65355; > color.alpha=0xffff; > > if( !(XftColorAllocValue (display, &visual, colmap, &color, &out)) ) > exit(0); > > XftDrawRect (d, &out, 0, 0, 180, 180); > XftColorFree (display, &visual, colmap, &out); > > color.red=0; > color.blue=0; > color.green=0; > color.alpha=0xffff; > > if( !(XftColorAllocValue (display, &visual, colmap, &color, &out)) ) > exit(0); > > string = "afasdfasdf"; > XftDrawString8(d, &out, result, 25, 25, string, strlen(string) ); > > XftColorFree (display, &visual, colmap, &out); > XftDrawDestroy (d); > XftPatternDestroy(match); > return 0; > } > > And well, I know this font is working cose is exactly the same I'm using on > my desktop's taskbar. But tried with others as well with no results. > Been looking on the internet (there's no much documentation for newbies on > this), and been looking on the xterm sources, from where I've borrowed some > code before getting lost on it, but don't exaclty know what I'm doing wrong. > Once again, any comments would be much apreciated. > Kind regards, > > Josip Deanovic <djosip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: chinlu chinawa writes: > > > Hello, > > > > Many thanks, will try it. > > > > It's a desktop manager based on a xml config-file (libxml2), and > > which I'll be hopefully merging onto Icewm (desktop manager), so the > > user can have different sets of icons for different virtual desktops > > (whether he/she wants so). > > When you say "desktop manager" you are really talking about window > manager? > > > And it's actually for an embedded live system for trainning/education > > I'm in development of. Good idea, isn't it? > > Yes, except xml configuration. :-) > > -- > Josip Deanovic > _______________________________________________ > > Devel@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > > > > --------------------------------- > To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! > Security Centre. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) raster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 裸好多 Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) _______________________________________________ Devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
