Re: xlib binding

[Stephen Tse <stephent at sfu dot ca>]

Alan McLean <amcl@hex.net> writes:

> On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 11:39:05AM -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
> > Stephen Tse <stephent@sfu.ca> writes:
> > 
> > > I agree! Also, for the sake of hacking, I am playing with direct
> > > implementation of x11 protocol in guile network code (`socket',
> > > `connect'...) instead of just linking c xlib to guile interface. Do
> > > you think guile is versatile enough that a complete efficient x11
> > > protocol implementation would be possible?
> > 
> > I don't know if it would be helpful, but RScheme has a set of
> > preliminary bindings and (I belive) some docs on low-level protocol
> > issues in its add-on modules (available via cvs).  I haven't looked at
> > them closely, but they sound like they might be relevant.
> 
> Another X-protocol layer binding out there is scheme-xp 0.01 by Mike Wilson.
> 
> http://www.sarg.ryerson.ca/~cmwilson/code/scheme-xp/
> http://www.sarg.ryerson.ca/~cmwilson/code/scheme-xp/scheme-xp-0.01.tar.gz
> 
>   SCHEME-XP 0.1
> 
>   scheme-xp is an implementation of the client-side X library from the
>   socket layer up.  Currently it implements much of the underlying
>   structure as well as 29 X protocol calls.  There are a few example
>   programs in toys.scm like hello-world, shade, bounce-db, and
>   color-change.  It should be relatively straightforward to add
>   remaining calls and write your own cool little toys.
> 
>   scheme-xp uses scsh, but isn't inherently scshy -- sockets and program
>   calling, mostly.  Look in xserver.scm, connection-requests.scm,
>   non-portable-interface in xprotocol-package.scm, or grep for `scshy'.


Implementation on socket layer.... that's exactly what I am trying to
do! Thanks for the link; it's very useful!