Re: [9fans] [plan9port] graphics

["David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

On 6/28/06, Roman Shaposhnick <rvs@sun.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:46:29AM -0700, Russ Cox wrote:
> > Over the weekend I shuffled things around.  Instead of
> > linking X code into every program, there is now a single
> > program, called devdraw, that contains X interface code.
> > Graphical programs now fork and exec a devdraw and then
> > speak a simple protocol to its standard input and standard
> > output to read from the keyboard and mouse and draw on the
> > screen.  Devdraw is not a threaded program.  It runs on the
> > standard system stack and uses select(2) to manage its two
> > inputs.  It uses only a single connection to the X server.
> > My hope is that doing things the Official Unix Way inside
> > devdraw will eliminate the problems people have reported.
>
>   This sounds interesting enough, but what's the "language"
>   an application is supposed to talk to devdraw binary in ?
>   Is it just the draw(3) ?
>
> Thanks,
> Roman.
>

I'd think you're still supposed to talk in draw(3) for portability's
sake right? :-)

Some protocols don't have to be fully open, but it might be
interesting to know about them.

Dave