Re: Tk and X events

I'm not sure I understand the question. It reads something like:

I want to build a house out of a door

Or perhaps you really want to write an X server ? There's really nothing that the Tk module would help you with there. There is a module that implments the client side of the X11 protocol. See X11::Protocol.

Update: Ahh..I think I see the light now...

Since Tk runs on Windows without X11, you'd like to create a canvas or something, accept the X11 client connections on port 6000, and draw on the canvas. That's a pretty imposing project, and I don't think you'll get enough speed using Tk primitives to draw with.

There is a pretty decent, stable X11 server for Win32 out there. See Xfree86 running on Cygwin. I also stumbled into an X11 window manager written in perl ( shudder :)

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Re: Re: Tk and X events by Anonymous Monk on Aug 08, 2002 at 14:45 UTC
Hi there. Thanks for the reply. Sorry if I wasn't being too clear. You're right, I want to write a free X server for Win32. Here's the way I assume that the Tk module works. Tk, as originally written by John Ousterhout, was desinged to run on an X server. That is, the server would send Tk an X event to create a new screen or Tk would send the server an X event to indicate pointer position or a keypress (or maybe it's the other way around). I assume that this is still the case in perl/Tk (unless the Tk module was modified to use a different event structure just for perl, which actually might be the case in Win32). What I'm trying to discover is where these events are being created and whether or not I can insert my own stream of X events for Tk to interact with. I haven't been able to locate any documentation yet on the internals of perl/Tk. Thanks, CAK.	[reply]

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Re: Re: Tk and X events
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 08, 2002 at 14:45 UTC

Hi there. Thanks for the reply. Sorry if I wasn't being too clear. You're right, I want to write a free X server for Win32. Here's the way I assume that the Tk module works. Tk, as originally written by John Ousterhout, was desinged to run on an X server. That is, the server would send Tk an X event to create a new screen or Tk would send the server an X event to indicate pointer position or a keypress (or maybe it's the other way around). I assume that this is still the case in perl/Tk (unless the Tk module was modified to use a different event structure just for perl, which actually might be the case in Win32). What I'm trying to discover is where these events are being created and whether or not I can insert my own stream of X events for Tk to interact with. I haven't been able to locate any documentation yet on the internals of perl/Tk. Thanks, CAK.

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