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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
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- From: johnhall@microsoft.com (John Hall)
- Subject: Re: Porting X applications to NT/Win32
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.013247.22651@microsoft.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 01:32:47 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Dec17.161921.17376@medusa.prime.com>
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- Windows 3.x certainly does, and I believe Windows NT will allow
- it as well though I'm not 100% certain.
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- Try it. Get a DC, pass to another process, and use it to draw
- on the original window.
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- In article johnm@CIS.Prime.COM writes:
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- | I am currently looking into the feasibility of porting an X application to
- | Windows NT/Win32. My X application consists of two cooperating processes; a
- | UI engine and a graphics engine. Amongst other things, the UI engine is responsible
- | for creating graphics windows within a strictly defined presentation area, and then
- | passing the handles to these graphics windows to the graphics engine. The graphics
- | engine is then able to draw graphics and process X events in these windows, just as
- | if it had created the windows itself. My question is this. Will Windows NT/Win32
- | support this type of architecture (ie sharing windows between different processes) ?
- |
- | Thanks
- | John Mason
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