>>>>> "Brady" == Brady Montz <bradym_at_cs.arizona.edu> writes:
Brady> Richard Lister <ric_at_giccs.georgetown.edu> writes:
....
>> Yes. Look at docs/modules.tex in the fvwm2 distribution.
Brady> I think this may be out of date, since a couple new message
Brady> types were added. Nothing fundamental changed though, and it's
Brady> unlikely he'd use the new message types (which are M_STRING,
Brady> and M_MINI_ICON).
It is definitely out of date. I'd like to fix that somewhat in one of
the upcoming betas...
Brady> Elad should also look at how other modules do things. When I
Brady> started writing FvwmIconMan, I found most of the available
Brady> modules were coded pretty poorly. Things have gotten better
Brady> since then. You might look at FvwmForm, FvwmIconMan, and
Brady> FvwmButtons.
Yup - other modules are the best "docs" right now.
Brady> Basically you need to figure out:
....
Brady> 3. How to send and receive messages to/from fvwm. (use
Brady> ReadFvwmPacket in fvwmlib, and then you might use the unions
Brady> that I defined in FvwmIconMan, or that the FvwmForm module
Brady> uses to get at the fields).
Acually, I noticed not too long ago that you were doing that, and I
think that's a really good idea. As part of a cleanup of the existing
module interface, I'd like to make something like that (structs &
funcs to work with them) standard in libfvwm.a for any module to use.
Chuck
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Received on Wed Aug 13 1997 - 14:36:58 BST