Re: [Fpwm-devel] Proposal

[Daniel F. <dan...@gm...>]

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> 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
>
>
X Window is known for its lack of MDI....Kylix tried it with a hack....i
think we can do better....i kinda like the proposal altough my limited X
architecture knowledge does not allow me to give some sort of suggestion to
improve it...i will read something about it in the next days (holiday here
in Brazil)...any suggestions on this reading?!?!?

 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:
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>  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
>
>
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Daniel

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