Re: Strangeness in NSWindow

[Fred Kiefer]

Adam Fedor wrote:

> Fred Kiefer wrote:
>
>> Then there is this NSWindowDepth stuff, according to NSGraphics this
>> are  rather complicated values that describe the availabe colours of a
>> window or screen. But in NSWindow 8 is returned as a NSWindowDepth and
>> the method [windowdepth] on XGServerWindow also returns rather just a
>> bit size. So what is the use of all this and what would be the correct
>> beahviour.
>>
>
> Looking at this got me to notice that the current GSDisplayServer and
> XGServer can't handle multiple screens properly. X-Windows can handle
> multiple screens from a single display, so I could change things around
> so that GSDisplayServer does this also, but I'm wondering about Windows.
>
> Do you know at all if Windows can handle multiple screens and if it
> would be easier to do it with multiple GSDisplayServers for each screen
> or on GSDisplayServer for all screens?


I don't quite see the connection of this two issues, but to answer your
question: As far as I can tell, and I never have see or used a multiple
monitor system with MS Windows, it should be implemented with one
GSDisplayServer not multiple.

And before we can add any support for multiple screens (or monitors as
MS Windows calls this) to the GNUstep backend, we should support it in
the gui. Currently NSWindow does not even care which screen it is using.
We should think of a concept for the window screen interaction first,
before putting support for this in our backends.