Re: rfe: seamless windows integration

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Earle,

Can't remember if I replied to this yet.  I am in the process of getting 
my Inspiron 8500 returned after having it replaced (bought it 3 weeks 
ago).  Both the original and the replacement randomly freeze.  Google 
for ["Inspiron 8500" freeze] and you'll see exactly what I mean.  I have 
been setting up computers for the past two weeks now.

I have finally ordered a Gateway 450X notebook.  Hopefully that will 
work better and allow me to spend a little more time looking at patches.

In other words, I might look at your patch tomorrow, or I might look at 
it next week.  Can't say for sure.

In any case, thanks for the patch, I like the idea and am looking 
forward to seeing what it does.

Thanks for contributing,

Harold

Earle F. Philhower III wrote:
> Howdy Harold,
>
> At 10:36 PM 8/4/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>
> > Thanks.  Let me tell you, we already have a laundry list of dream 
> > features.  We just need people to start working on them.
>
>
> There sure are a lot of managers and architects around here recently. ;)
>
> In any case, since it's been a couple years since I did any parser work,
> I've hacked out a flex/bison parser for a generic extensible xwin.rc 
> format,
> and gotten all the info stuffed into a reasonably simple structure, now
> all I need to do is crawl the structure and do CreateMenu()/AddMenuItem()
> accordingly and LoadIcon(), and when creating windows compare the class
> name to the ones in the prefs structure and possibly replace icon and/or
> add to the system menu of that window.
>
> I'm attaching a tar.bz2 below, give it a look-see whoever's interested
> in the whole customizable menus thing, and if you want to integrate the
> prefs structure parser let me know.  The file format's simple and
> explained in the input.rc, and has support for pretty much all that
> XWin.exe can do now as far as customizations.  [ Sure, you could add
> an ALPHA {} block that would change the alpha-blend of windows under
> Win2K and XP, but I'm not sure how really useful that would be.  Maybe
> a PaletteWindow style, though, for xload or xcalc... ]
>
> For me the most interesting part was getting back up to speed on lex/yacc,
> the implementing in the server is reasonably "plug-n-chug" as my physics
> prof used to say.
>
> Harold, if this is something you don't like for XWin just let me know...
>
> -Earle F. Philhower, III
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