Re: [Lily4jedit-devel] Re: Lilytool Qns

[Johannes S. <Joh...@gm...>]

Hi,

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Bertalan Fodor wrote:

> Well, I was thinking again a bit and looked at output-gnome.scm. Because
> lilypond is a Linux program with no portability in mind, the first task
> will be to have lilypond work on cygwin. I'm afraid that this Gnome
> output will rely on X11. I don't know how to connect a cygwin (or any)
> X11 window to jEdit.

It wouldn't be jEdit which creates the window, but lilypond, right? This
makes it much more complicated to get any feedback.

> This gnome backend seems to be a big hack for me:

It is.

> drawing from lilypond to a GTK window. I don't have an idea how to make
> something that is java, even with JNI.

You wouldn't use JNI. You would rather use some Java code to access X11
(it is just a network protocol), or go the whole distance and use
something like Xweird, an X11 server written in Java.

> Well, that's future's problem, TeX output hasn't disappeared yet. We'll
> see how that gnome backend works.

Yeah, let's cross that bridge when we have to.

Ciao,
Dscho