Just posted a page with a clock demo (see right) that I’ve created. It’s actually on-the-way to a desklets system in gst, but not really worthy of that name yet.
It’s mostly a demo of linking to various C libraries (XLib, Imlib and Cairo). Check the page for more.
Giving up on proper handling of signals. Everything seems to work; it just doesn’t… work. Presumably, I’ve got some error with the actual C function invocation (which would exactly surprise me), but I’m so tired of adding debug statements and the compile-install-test cycle, I’m just going to poll instead, since that works. Incidentally, there’s an [...]
This week’s Smalltalk effort is to try to unblock blocking calls.
Basically, I want to be able to call XNextEvent without blocking the entire image. That means (I think) forking a C process, and waiting on a (ST) Semaphore, which will be signalled when the child process terminates.
It’s an experiment, really, because I’m sure there are [...]
Well, I might as well make a fourth post while I’m at it.
Just got the above printer / scanner, not least because there is an HP driver for it. After a certain amount of emerging / unmerging / remerging (I’m on Gentoo), it works very nicely indeed, both printing and scanning. Printing is much faster [...]