[MPlayer-G2-dev] Concerning TODO item re-thinkparent-childconnection, move to vf_vo2.c maybe

[Jiri Svoboda]

> > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 02:25:21PM +0100, Sascha Sommer wrote:
> > > I think all of them need nothing more than a handle to 
> the window in 
> > > which they should display the window, it's x, y, width and height 
> > > and the colorkey. Therefore I propose that the UI creates the 
> > > windows for them and passes its parameters to the vo when 
> they change.
> >
> > Does this mean that each UI calls vo->create_window or some 
> other vo 
> > function, or should thæ UI know how to create a window for 
> each vo it 
> > plans to use?  I don't think that vo-dependant code should 
> be in the 
> > UI, so I hope you don't mean to do this.
> >
> 
> I think the vos only use two kinds of windows X11 and windows windows.
> If it is a linux gui it should know how to create a X11 
> window or call a helper function like the one in libvo2/x11_helper.c.

And uder DirectFB You can create windows too... So there should generic -
not x11 dependant way.
I can imagine that there is an GUI written using gtk and uses x11 based vo
under xwindows and different vo under directfb.
		JS