[Fpwm-devel] Proposal

[Andrew H. <And...@ao...>]

Hi, I'm proposing the following structure for a window manager:


TWindowManager
  TXWindowManager  // subclasses take care of the painting
    TfpGuiWindowManager
    TWhateverToolKitWindowManager


I'd like the feature of MDI

Currently it is possible that a X11 server will have multiple screens.

To manage the windows the RootWindow of a screen is 'grabbed' by a
program (fpwm) to recieve map and other requests by possible clients.
Using objects I think it is possible to fairly easily add the capability
to manage windows within a client application.

Something like:

TRootWindow.Create(AScreen: PXScreen; AWindow: TWindow);

So AWindow can be the RootWindow of the screen or can be a TWindow
within an application. An application will have to send some sort of
request to make a window it owns a MDI parent or similar.


TXWindowManager will have a list of TRootWindows.

Thoughts?

Andrew Haines