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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: mmaping icons
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       1999-02-14 14:15:45
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David Faure wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 04:37:25PM +0000, Jo Dillon wrote:
> > David Faure (David.Faure@insa-lyon.fr) spake thusly:
> >
> > > There is no contradiction. The server can be a corba server, with a clear
> > > interface for apps to request pixmaps, but it still needs to be some sort
> > > of a hidden window, because it needs to load Pixmaps - which you can't do
> > > if you're not connected to a display, AFAIK.
> >
> >   You don't need to make a window to be connected to a display.
> 
> True. Silly me.
> 
> Hum, on second thought, if the aim is to avoid duplication of the pixmaps
> in memory, CORBA is _not_ the way to go for this thing. The object
> requested will always be copied by the ORB... What is needed is shared
> memory between processes.
> 
Well no. If you could construct a QPixmap from a X handle, you only need
the handle. Sharing QPixmap objects would confuse Qt I guess.

Greetings, Stephan

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