supporting non-rectangular windows

[Pat Kane]

Add this line just before the event loop:
  XMapWindow(dsp, win);
Pat
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Prasanta Sadhukhan
<psadhukhan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer. I saw that the example use widget API through
> XCreateManagedWIdget APIs.
> Are this required to use the shape extension API to work?
>
> I wanted to use the shape API without this if possible. I tried a small
> example of creating a circular window which will have 2 diagonal line in it
> and the window should close when any button is pressed inside it. Attached
> is the c program I tried but it is not creating any window and is hanging
> inside XNextEvent() call
> Can anyone please point to me as to what is wrong in this program. I am a
> newbie to X-programming
>
> Also, one more question regarding events is
> what difference does it make if we call XSelectInput or XShapeSelectInput?
> Do we always need to use XShapeSelectInput if we have set a shape on the
> window? Or are there cases in which we would want to use XSelectInput with a
> shaped window?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Prashant
>
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Alan Coopersmith
> <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 01/24/11 03:34 AM, Prasanta Sadhukhan wrote:
>> > Thanks for the information. Is there any link which shows an example of
>> > how to
>> > use this APIs for example, if I want to create a rounded-rect window.
>>
>> See the oclock sources, which use the shape extension to draw a circular
>> clock
>> window:
>>
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/oclock/tree/ or
>> http://www.x.org/releases/individual/app/oclock-1.0.2.tar.bz2
>>
>> --
>>        -Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>>         Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
>>
>
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