Binding for some common Gui operations #2117
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CI doesn't have libX11 installed (quite understandable), so we need to work around it.
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I have a question: what is different from the excellent https://github.com/gui-cs/Terminal.Gui? |
I didn't know that library, but I don't see it doing any of this (or I couldn't find it). My binding is for
Together, these two allow running a desktop OS on something like an Ili934x (on SPI) and a touchscreen or to create custom input devices for a kiosk application. And with "desktop OS" I really mean the full GUI (of either Windows or Unix) |
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OK, so it's quite complementary and both can be used at the same time. I'm a big fan of Terminal.Gui. Really works nicely. I'm using it a lot in personal projects. So you can get a gui in a command line with support of mouse as well. So integration of both can be nice. |
| // Definitions for this file come from X.h and Xlib.h from the Raspberry Pi (32 Bit Raspberry Pi OS) | ||
| // Some structures may have different alignment on 64 bit systems, so that it may be required to replace | ||
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| internal static UInt32 AllPlanes = 0xFFFF_FFFF; |
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why using UInt32 and not just uint?
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For values used in interop calls, I prefer to be explicit about the size. I know that in c#, uint is defined to be 32 bits, but this is not the case in the C world.
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| internal static extern int XGetWindowAttributes( |
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maybe add as well the missing intellisense comments? There are few places where it's not present. For maintainability, it can help for the internal ones especially for the dllimport ones?
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