Re: [AD] ex_menu crash in Windows

[Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:06:21 -0600, Matthew Leverton <meffer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 5:07 AM, Elias Pschernig
> <elias.pschernig@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > We probably could even draw our own menus, hooking into the input code
> > and into al_flip_display. Since that would be somewhat hackish a
> > better idea would be to slightly adapt the AP for itI, but anyway,
> > this would then go into the territory of an actual GUI addon...
> >
> The native dialog should be restricted to things that are outside the
> context of what goes on in a display's back buffer. I don't see any
> reason to try to emulate native menus or add support for any type of
> widget.
> 
> On the flip side, an Allegro GUI add-on might hook into the native
> dialogs to display menus if available.
> 
> > Somewhat related, I think it would be nice having an ex_gtk and an
> > ex_qt example, showing how to make Allegro draw into an OpenGL widget
> > of either (and re-route gtk/qt input back to Allegro).
> >
> Is it easily possible to do something like this?
> 
> al_set_new_display_option(ALLEGRO_GTK, 2, ALLEGRO_REQUIRE);
> 
> If not, what about something like this in the native dialog addon?
> 
> al_create_gtk2_display(w, h);

If we implement the XEmbed protocol then Allegro windows should work
well inside almost any GUI toolkit, I think.

http://standards.freedesktop.org/xembed-spec/xembed-spec-latest.html

Peter