[Xcb] Building UI Elements using XCB

[Bart Massey]

Don't let what "modern toolkits" do dissuade you from a
window-per-widget approach, though: it works fine, and is worlds
easier in most ways.

You probably want to write your toolkit output mostly atop Cairo, BTW;
the harder part is input handling. I don't have a great example lying
around, I'm afraid...

--Bart

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 09:24:32PM -0400, Gulshan Singh wrote:
>> Hi, I'm new with XCB. Are there any examples of making UI elements such as
>> buttons or input boxes? Would each UI element just be a xcb_window_t so it
>> can listen for events?
>
> Modern toolkits normally don't use an X Window for each widget; they
> just draw directly to the main window, and the event loop checks events
> against the bounds of the various widgets.
>
> - Josh Triplett
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