[Xcb] how to draw a point ?

[Kevin Brosius]

Jamey Sharp wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 05:07:52PM +0100, Vincent Torri wrote:
> > i'm learning xcb (my aim is to port a program to xcb) and i want to draw a
> > point in a window.
> 
> Cool!
> 
> > Here is my short program:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > I see no point at coord (100, 100). Where is (are) my mistake(s) ?
> 
> I see a couple of problems off-hand.
> 
> You haven't assigned a value returned from XCBPIXMAPNew to p.pixmap, so
> you might have gotten an error that you didn't see. (We have some ideas
> about how to make that easier, but for now you probably want to check
> for X errors returned by XCBWaitEvent.) So make sure to assign to
> p.pixmap before calling XCBCreatePixmap on it.
> 
> Also, you haven't copied the contents of your pixmap to your window,
> which you should make sure you only do after you've received an Expose
> event. I think. (I'm not actually an X expert.)

Yes, that's correct.  Vincent, in X, you generally respond to Expose
events by copying your window contents from the pixmap you draw them on,
to the exposed area.  X doesn't manage your displayed image for you
(like a canvas library like evas would) so you need to handle re-drawing
the contents anytime the window is shown, or a portion of it is
uncovered from behind another app (an expose event.)

You can add a case like:

	    case XCBExpose:
	      printf(" expose\n");
	      break;

to your event loop to see when exposes are generated.  The most
efficient method is to check the expose event dimensions (it returns
coords and width,height, if I recall, for the exposed area) and just
copy the region that the expose event says was shown.

> 
> > In addition, when i close the window, there's a seg fault. Where does it
> > come from ?
> 
> When you close this window, your window manager is calling XKillClient,
> which causes the X server to close the socket connection to your
> program. When the connection closes, XCBWaitEvent returns null, which
> you're dereferencing in the condition of your switch statement.
> 

something like:

      e = XCBWaitEvent(c);
      if (e)
	{
          .... event loop ....
	}
      
      /* otherwise, we've lost the X connection, let's terminate */
      else
	break;

works ok here...


> > Thank you very much !
> 
> Sure!
> --
> Jamey Sharp <jamey at minilop.net> - http://minilop.net/
> 

-- 
Kevin