Version 3 of GSoC Idea: Tk Backend for the Wayland Display Protocol

Updated 2014-09-11 06:56:26 by pooryorick

Wayland Backend for Tk

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

Comments & Discussion

PYK 2014-09-11: Would Tk perhaps get more mileage out of targeting SDL?