[linux-audio-dev] Audio s/w ui swallowing

[Paul Davis]

>On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Paul Davis wrote:
>
>> not exactly. you can pass them the ID of an X Window to draw
>> into. they can look it up and then use it. it won't be a top-level
>> window, which will create some restrictions on what they can do, and
>> so they have to expect this to be the case.
>
>Wouldn't it work much like a window manager?  Don't they run pretty
>similarly like normal X11 programs.  That's how they're able to write
>window managers that use GTK+ for their widgets.

yes, but that works in reverse: the app creates a new X window, the WM
is notified of its creation, and acts accordingly. in the case steve
was proposing, the "WM" creates the window, the app draws into it.

--p