From: Kaj de V. <syl...@fr...> - 2005-04-30 18:14:39
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> On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 18:03 +0000, va...@li... wrote: > > So heres the question: How the heck can we fix GetTextExtent() (& > a few others, DrawText() > > has the same problem) so that we can pass a String of arbitary > length? We can't simply pass > > a pointer to the text because the appserver and the application > are in seperate address spaces. > > A shared memory map segment? Seems like that might be better. Maybe > have the appserver create a chunk of mapped, shared memory, then have > the app send a message to the server requesting a memory region of n > bytes. The appserver can pick a section of it's memory map of size n, > and send back the location, at which point it can be mapped by the app. > App can write to that, then send a message to the appserver saying it's > there. > > Daniel Wouldn't we break the possibility to use remote display by that? Kaj |