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

[Fons Adriaensen]

Robert Melby wrote:

 > if i understand correctly, hack seems like too strong a word. the
 > embedder reparents the out-of-process window and sets the
 > SubstructureRedirectMask so it can intercept events etc. it's fairly
 > simple (even with all the bells and whistles they use in their spec),
 > and in general it isn't an abuse of the X architecture. see also 'man
 > XReparentWindow' and for example 'man XConfigureEvent' to see how the
 > substructure redirect is handled.
 > 
 > the only thing that really needs to be agreed upon after that is how
 > to get the window id of the window to be swallowed.

I was just trying this out (on Solaris ...) when this message came in.

It works, and it's simple (if you have the habit of working with X
directly).

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Fons Adriaensen
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