Wayland Backend for Tk
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Areas | Tk |
Good if student knows | C, X11 |
Priority | Low |
Difficulty | Hard |
Benefits to the student | Learning to read a large code base, and tease it apart |
Benefits to Tcl | ??? |
Mentor | Mentor's name/link |
Project Description
Initial Ideas
I. Create a proof-of-concept for Tk running directly on the Wayland display protocol
http://wayland.freedesktop.org/
References
- See TkGS for an older attempt at reworking the underpinnings of Tk.
- See this source code for how to actually get a working drawing surface with Wayland. Pay particular attention to the snippet including wl_egl_window_create and eglCreateWindowSurface…
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