[Xcb] DBE help ...

[Lars Segerlund]

 Thanks, that was exactly the info that was needed.

 I have also heard that xdbe was deprecated, but it's apparently in
the server still, also if it's deprecated, where is the alternative ?
Especially for a framebuffer devise as vesa or similar.
 So I'll take my chanses, but I certainly would appreciate any
information about deprecation.

 I have a lot of old progs using it, and I 'think' it's quite commonly
used :-D ... so I hope it won't go away, since it's a simple mechanism
with few downsides.

 What happens when I hae a xml file ? Do I need one of the gnu
developer license thingies ? or can I just dump a patch on the
mailinglist ?

 / regards, Lars Segerlund.

2010/10/29 Julien Danjou <julien at danjou.info>:
> On Fri, Oct 29 2010, Lars Segerlund wrote:
>
>>  As I understand it I need to do the following points:
>>
>>  1. port the xdbe proto header file.
>>  2. somwhere add the functions to make the calls , Xext ?
>>
>>  Can I have a bit of help please, it was 5 years since I did any
>> 'serious' X programming, and everything is changed :-D ( whine ...
>> whine whine ... and some more whining ... ).
>
> You have to write a XML version of the protocol spec, as seen in the
> xcb-proto repository.
>
> Then, enabling its build in libxcb should generate some code. I think
> DBE is quite simple, so you should not need to hack the XML -> C
> generator.
>
> OTOH, I though DBE was deprecated. Or am I wrong?
>
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> Julien Danjou
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