NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/os/mswindo/programm/misc/4242

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From: [e-mail] (John Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: Porting X applications to Win32
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Date: 15 Dec 92 16:14:52 GMT
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   I am currently looking into the feasibility of porting an X application to
   Windows NT/Win32. My X application consists of two cooperating processes;
   a UI engine and a graphics engine. Amongst other things, the UI engine is
   responsible for creating graphics windows within a strictly defined presentation
   area, and then passing the handles to these graphics windows to the graphics
   engine. The graphics engine is then able to draw graphics and process X events
   in these windows, just as if it had created them itself. My question is this.
   Will Windows NT/Win32 support this type of architecture (ie sharing windows
   between different processes) ?

   Thanks
   John Mason