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<h1 align="left"><img border="0" src="file:///C:/My%20Documents/My%20Webs/myweb2/images/clouds.gif" width="72" height="33">Microwindows Architecture</h1>
 
<p align="left">1999/12/04 Copyright (c) 1999 Greg Haerr &lt;<a href="mailto:greg@censoft.com">greg@censoft.com</a>&gt; All Rights Reserved.</p>
 
<p align="left">This is my first cut at getting the architecture and implementation
spilled out.&nbsp; Please let me know if there's more detail needed in some areas, or
whether you're confused by my explanations.&nbsp; This document is for educational and
porting purposes, so please read on.</p>
 
<h3>Contents</h3>
 
<p>1. Architecture<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Layered Design<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Device Drivers<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1.2.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Screen Driver<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1.2.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mouse Driver<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1.2.3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Keyboard Driver<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1.3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; MicroGUI - Device
Independent Graphics Engine&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1.4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Applications Programmer
Interfaces<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1.4.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Microwindows API<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1.4.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Nano-X API</p>
 
<p>2. Device-Independent Engine Features<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Graphics Engine Features
and Implementation<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.1.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Regions<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.1.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Clipping<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.1.3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Line Drawing<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.1.4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rectangles, Circles,
Ellipses<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.1.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Polygons<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.1.6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Area Fills<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.1.7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Fonts<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.1.8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Text Drawing<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.1.9&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Color model and
palettes<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.1.10&nbsp; Image Drawing<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.1.11&nbsp; Blitting</p>
 
<p>3. Microwindows API<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Message-passing
architecture<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Window creation and
destruction<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Window showing, hiding
and moving<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Window painting<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.4.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Client and screen
coordinates<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.4.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Device contexts<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.4.3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Graphics drawing API<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Utility functions<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.5.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Setting window focus<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.5.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mouse capture<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.5.3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rectangle and Region
management</p>
 
<p>4. Nano-X API<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Client/Server model<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Events<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4.3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Window creation and
destruction<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4.4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Window showing, hiding
and moving<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Drawing to a window<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4.5.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Graphics contexts<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4.5.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Graphics drawing API<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4.6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Utility functions</p>
 
<h3>1. Architecture</h3>
 
<h3>1.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Layered Design</h3>
 
<p>Microwindows is essentially a layered design that allows different layers to be used or
rewritten to suite the needs of the implementation.&nbsp; At the lowest level, screen,
mouse/touchpad and keyboard drivers provide access to the actual display and other
user-input hardware.&nbsp; At the mid level, a portable graphics engine is implemented,
providing support for line draws, area fills, polygons, clipping and color models.&nbsp;
At the upper level, various API's are implemented providing access to the graphics
applications programmer.&nbsp; These APIs may or may not provide desktop and/or window
look and feel.&nbsp; Currently, Microwindows supports the ECMA APIW and Nano-X APIs.&nbsp;
These APIs provide close compatibility with the Win32 and X Window systems, allowing
programs to be ported from other systems easily.</p>
 
<h3>1.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Device Drivers</h3>
 
<p>The device driver interfaces are defined in device.h.&nbsp; A given implementation of
Microwindows will link at least one screen, mouse and keyboard driver into the
system.&nbsp; The mid level routines in the device-independent graphics engine core then
call the device driver directly to perform the hardware-specific operations.&nbsp; This
setup allows varying hardware devices to be added to the Microwindows system without
affecting the way the entire system works.</p>
 
<h3>1.2.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Screen Driver</h3>
 
<p>There are currently screen drivers written for Linux 2.2.x framebuffer systems, as well
as 16-bit ELKS and MSDOS drivers for real-mode VGA cards.&nbsp; The real mode drivers
(scr_bios.c, vgaplan4.c, mempl4.c, scr_her.c) can be configured to initialize the VGA
hardware directly, or utilize the PC BIOS to begin and end graphics mode.&nbsp; The
framebuffer drivers (scr_fb.c, fb.c, fblin?.c) have routines for 1, 2, 4 and 8bpp
palletized displays, as well as 8, 15, 16, and 32 bpp truecolor displays.&nbsp; The
framebuffer system works in Linux by opening /dev/fd0 (or getenv(&quot;FRAMEBUFFER&quot;))
and mmap()ing the display memory into a linear buffer in memory.&nbsp; Some display modes,
like the VGA 4 planes mode, require that OUT instructions be issued by the screen driver,
while packed pixel drivers typically can get away with just reading and writing the
framebuffer only.&nbsp; All the graphics mode initialization and deinitialization is
handled by the Linux kernel.&nbsp; Getting this set up can be a real pain.</p>
 
<p>The screen driver is the most complex driver in the system, but was designed so that it
can be extremely easy to port new hardware to Microwindows.&nbsp; For this reason, there
are but a few entry points that must actually talk to the hardware, while other routines
are provided that allow just the small set of core routines to be used, if desired.&nbsp;
For example, a screen driver must implement ReadPixel, DrawPixel, DrawHorzLine, and
DrawVertLine.&nbsp; These routines read and write a pixel from display memory, as well as
draw a horizontal and vertical line.&nbsp; Clipping is handled at the device-independent
layer.&nbsp; Currently, all mouse movement, text drawing, and bitmap drawing run on top of
these low level functions.&nbsp; In the future, entry points will be provided for fast
text and bitmap drawing capabilities.&nbsp; If the display is palletized, a SetPalette
routine must be included, unless a static palette that matches the system palette is
linked into the system.&nbsp; The screen driver, on initialization, returns values telling
the system the x,y size of the screen, along with the color model supported.</p>
 
<p>Two font models are currently provided, to be linked in at your desire.&nbsp; The
proportional font model has in-core font tables built from .bdf and other font conversion
utilities provided.&nbsp; The rom-based font uses the PC BIOS to find the character
generator table address and has routines to draw that fixed-pitch font format.</p>
 
<p>The screen driver can choose to implement bitblitting, by ORing in PSF_HAVEBLIT into
the returned flags field.&nbsp; When present, bit blitting allows Microwindows to perform
off-screen drawing.&nbsp; Microwindows allows any graphics operation that can be performed
on a physical screen to be performed off-screen, and then copied (bit-blitted) to the
physical screen.&nbsp; Implementing a blitting screen driver can be fairly complex.&nbsp;
The first consideration in implementing a blitting driver is whether the low-level display
hardware can be passed a hardware address for a framebuffer.&nbsp; If so, then the same
routines that draw to the physical screen can be used to draw to off-screen buffers.&nbsp;
This is the method used for the linear framebuffer drivers provided for Linux packed-pixel
displays.&nbsp; The system replaces the mmap()'d physical framebuffer address with a
malloc()'d memory address and calls the original screen driver entry point.&nbsp; In the
case where the system doesn't use an actual physical memory address, like when running on
top of X or MS Windows, then two sets of routines must be written; one to write the the
underlying graphics system hardware, and another to write to memory addresses.&nbsp; In
addition, the blit entry point must then know how to copy both ways between the two
formats.&nbsp; In fact, all four operations, screen-to-memory, memory-to-screen,
memory-to-memory, and screen-to-screen are supported by Microwindows and may need to be
performed.&nbsp; And of course the bit blitting routine must be _fast_.&nbsp; See the
files fblin8.c and mempl4.c for examples of supporting both types of display hardware.</p>
 
<p>If writing your first screen driver, I would recommend you start with the PC BIOS real
mode driver, scr_bios.c, or take a look at the framebuffer driver, scr_fb.c, which is
essentially a wrapper around all the fblin?.c routines to read and write various
framebuffer formats.&nbsp; Don't set the PSF_HAVEBLIT flag at first, and you won't have to
write a bitblit routine from the start.</p>
 
<p>Note that currently, all SCREENDEVICE function pointers must be filled in to at least a
void function.&nbsp; For speed reasons, the system always assumes that the function
pointers are valid.&nbsp; Thus, even if not implementing bitblit, a do-nothing bit-blit
procedure must be provided.</p>
 
<h3>1.2.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mouse Driver</h3>
 
<p>There are three mouse drivers currently included in Microwindows.&nbsp; A GPM driver
for Linux, mou_gpm.c, as well as a serial port mouse driver for Linux and ELKS,
mou_ser.c.&nbsp; For MSDOS, an int33 driver mou_dos.c is provided.&nbsp; The provided
mouse drivers decode MS, PC and Logitech mice formats.&nbsp; A mouse driver's basic
function is to decode the mouse data and return either relative or absolute data for the
mouse position and buttons.</p>
 
<p>In addition, Brad LaRonde has written a touch panel driver mou_tp.c, which masquerades
as a mouse driver.&nbsp; It returns the value of x, y value of the pen on the display
surface, and can be used like a mouse.</p>
 
<p>Under Linux, the main loop of Microwindows is a select() statement, with file
descriptors for the mouse and keyboard driver always passed in.&nbsp; If the system that
Microwindows is running on doesn't support select() or doesn't pass mouse data through a
file descriptor, a Poll() entry point is provided.</p>
 
<h3>1.2.3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Keyboard Driver</h3>
 
<p>There are two keyboard drivers provided.&nbsp; The first, kbd_tty.c, is used for Linux
and ELKS systems where the keyboard is opened and read as through a file descriptor.&nbsp;
The second, kbd_bios.c, read the PC BIOS for keystrokes and is used in MSDOS real
mode.&nbsp; The keyboard driver currently returns 8-bit data from the keyboard, but
doesn't decode multi-character function key codes. This functionality will need to be
added soon, by reading termcap files or the like.</p>
 
<h3>1.3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; MicroGUI - Device Independent Graphics
Engine</h3>
 
<p>&nbsp;The core graphics functionality of Microwindows resides in the device independent
graphics engine, which calls the screen, mouse and keyboard drivers to interface with the
hardware.&nbsp; User applications programs never all the core graphics engine routines
directly, but rather through the programmer API's, discussed in the next sections.&nbsp;
The core engine routines are separated from the applications API's is for a variety of
reasons.&nbsp; The core routines will always reside on the server in a client/server
environment.&nbsp; Also, the core routines use internal text font and bitmap formats that
are designed for speed and may or may not be the same as the structures used in standard
API's.&nbsp; In addition, the core routines always use pointers, never ID's, and can then
be used together to implement more complex functions without always converting handles,
etc.</p>
 
<p>In Microwindows, the core routines all begin as GdXXX() functions, and are concerned
with graphics output, not window management.&nbsp; In addition, all clipping and color
conversion is handled within this layer.&nbsp; The following files comprise the core
modules of Microwindows:</p>
 
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; devdraw.c&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Core graphics
routines for line, circle, polygon draw and fill, text and bitmap drawing, color
conversion</p>
 
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; devclip.c&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Core
clipping routines.&nbsp; (devclip2.c is the new y-x-banding algorithm, devclip1.c an older
method)</p>
 
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; devrgn.c&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
New dynamically allocated routines for intersect/union/subtract/xor region creation.</p>
 
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; devmouse.c&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Core routines for keeping
the mouse pointer updated or clipped from the screen.</p>
 
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; devkbd.c&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Core
keyboard handling routines.</p>
 
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; devpalX.c&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Linked in
static palettes for 1, 2, 4 and 8bpp palletized systems.</p>
 
<p>Section 2 following discusses the MicroGUI graphics engine routines in detail.</p>
 
<h3>1.4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Applications Programmer Interfaces</h3>
 
<p>Microwindows currently supports two different application programming interfaces.&nbsp;
This set of routines handles client/server activity, window manager activities like
drawing title bars, close boxes, etc, as well as, of course, handling the programmer's
requests for graphics output.&nbsp; Both the API's run on top of the core graphics engine
routines and device drivers. </p>
 
<p>The basic model of any API on top of Microwindows is to hang in initialize the screen,
keyboard and mouse drivers, then hang in a select() loop waiting for an event.&nbsp; When
an event occurs, if it's a system event like keyboard or mouse activity, then this
information is passed to the user program converted to an expose event, paint message,
etc.&nbsp; If it's a user requesting a graphics operation, then the parameters are decoded
and passed to the appropriate GdXXX engine routine.&nbsp; Note that the concept of a
window versus raw graphics operations are handled at this API level.&nbsp; That is, the
API defines the concepts of what a window is, what the coordinate systems are, etc, and
then the coordinates are all converted to &quot;screen coordinates&quot; and passed to the
core GdXXX engine routines to do the real work.&nbsp; This level also defines graphics or
display contexts and passes that information, including clipping information, to the core
engine routines.</p>
 
<p>Currently, the Microwindows API code is in win*.c, while the Nano-X API code is in
nanox/srv*.c.</p>
 
<h3>1.4.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Microwindows API</h3>
 
<p>The Microwindows API tries to be compliant with the European ECMA APIW standard.&nbsp;
Currently, there is support for most of the graphics drawing and clipping routines, as
well as automatic window title bar drawing and dragging windows for movement. The
Microwindows API is message-based, and allows programs to be written without regard to the
eventual window management policies implemented by the system.&nbsp; The Microwindows API
is not currently client/server, and will be discussed in more detail in section 4.</p>
 
<h3>1.4.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Nano-X API</h3>
 
<p>The Nano-X API is modeled after the mini-x server written initially by David Bell,
which was a reimplementation of X on the MINIX operating system.&nbsp; It loosely follows
the X Window System Xlib API, but the names all being with GrXXX() rather than
X...().&nbsp; Currently, the Nano-X API is client/server, but does not have any provisions
for automatic window dressings, title bars, or user window moves.&nbsp; There are several
groups writing widget sets currently, which will provide such things.&nbsp; Unfortunately,
the user programs must also then write only to a specific widget set API, rather than
using the Nano-X API directly, which means that only the functionality provided by the
widget set will be upwardly available to the applications programmer.&nbsp; (Although this
could be considerable, in the case that, say Gdk was ported.)</p>
 
<h3>2. Device-Independent Engine Features</h3>
 
<p>This section discusses in the capabilities and implementation of Microwindows' core
graphics engine in detail.&nbsp; It's purpose is both educational and to allow extending
an API by understanding how the engine works.</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Graphics Engine
Features and Implementation</h3>
 
<p>These routines concern themselves with drawing operations to off-screen or screen
surfaces.&nbsp; Each routine starts with Gd... and is passed a pointer to the SCREENDEVICE
structure (PSD) as it's first parameter.&nbsp; The PSD parameter specifies the low level
display details, like the x, y size of the device and the color model used by the
hardware, for example.&nbsp; In addition, the actual routines to perform drawing are
function pointers in this structure.&nbsp; All screen coordinates are of type COORD, and
specified in device coordinates, that is, offsets from the upper left corner of the
screen.</p>
 
<p>Colors are always specified as an RGB COLORVAL value into the graphics engine.&nbsp;
They are then possibly converted to palette indices and sent to the display hardware as
PIXELVAL values.&nbsp; In the case of 32bpp truecolor displays, no conversion is
required.&nbsp; The color model will be discussed in detail below.</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.1.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Regions</h3>
 
<p>Regions are used to describe arbitrary sets of pixels on the screen.&nbsp; A simple,
square region of pixels can be described by a single rectangle.&nbsp; More complex sets of
pixels require more complex data structures.&nbsp; In Microwindows, regions are described
by an array of non-overlapping rectangles.&nbsp; Currently, there are two different
implementations of regions in Microwindows, as I've been enhancing the capabilities in
this area.&nbsp; The original design used a single static array of CLIPRECTs to describe
complex regions.&nbsp; Any point within any rectangle in the array was considered to be in
the region.&nbsp; The array wasn't sorted in any particular order, but was always
guaranteed to contain non-overlapping rectangles.&nbsp; Another global variable,
clipcount, specified the number of rectangles in the array.&nbsp; This original design had
no engine entry points for region management, the entire array was passed to the clipping
functions, described below. </p>
 
<p>In the new design, any number of regions can be created, as the regions (CLIPREGION *)
are stored as dynamically allocated arrays of rectangles.&nbsp; In this implementation,
the non-overlapping rectangles are always kept in &quot;y-x&quot; sorted bands, such that
each band's y height is the same for all rectangles in the band.&nbsp; This means that
only the x position and width of the rectangles in each band varied.&nbsp; Because of
this, it is easier to create a set of functions for combining regions, since effectively
only a single dimension had to be compared for each region operation.&nbsp; The new region
handling routines allow for creating and destroying regions, as well as combining
rectangles and regions with regions using Intersection, Union, Subtraction, and Exclusive
Or.&nbsp; This model allows regions to be implemented apart from the clipping routines,
unlike the first version.&nbsp; Following are the new region routines:</p>
 
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GdAllocRegion&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
- Create a region<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GdDestroyRegion&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
- Destroy a region<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GdCopyRegion&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
- Copy a region<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; GdUnionRectWithRegion&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Union a rectangle with
a region<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GdIntersectRegion&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
- Create a region from the intersection of two regions<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GdSubtractRegion&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
- Create a region from the difference of two regions<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GdUnionRegion&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
- Create a region from the union of two regions<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GdXorRegion&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
- Create a region from the XOR of two regions<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.1.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Clipping</h3>
 
<p>Clipping in Microwindows is closely tied to the region management code.&nbsp; At any
point in time, the graphics engine has a single clipping region, that is a set of
rectangles, defined for any graphics operation.&nbsp; A point is drawn if it is
&quot;inside&quot; any of the current set of clip rectangles.&nbsp; Two slightly modified
versions of the clipping algorithm are supplied, devclip1.c for the original, static
rectangle array, and devclip2.c for the newer dynamically allocated array.&nbsp; A single
entry point GdSetClipRects, takes the passed region and specifies it's use for all
subsequent graphics operations.&nbsp; All the drawing routines then use the two additional
routines to determine whether or not to draw.&nbsp; GdClipPoint takes an x,y point in
screen coordinates and returns TRUE if the point can be drawn, that is, the point is
within one of the region rectangles.&nbsp; GdClipArea takes an upper left and lower right
point, and returns one of the following: CLIP_VISIBLE, if the specified area is completely
within the region, CLIP_INVISIBLE, if the area is completely not in the region, which
means that no drawing should be performed, or CLIP_PARTIAL, if a part but not the whole
area is within the region.&nbsp; A typical graphics primitive will call the screen driver
with unmodified passed inputs if CLIP_VISIBLE is returned, or return if CLIP_INIVISIBLE is
returned.&nbsp; In the CLIP_PARTIAL case, the primitive must break up the original request
into areas that are within the clip region before calling the screen driver.&nbsp; This
slows down the operation considerably.</p>
 
<p>Because the clipping code is called constantly before drawing operations, Microwindows
keeps a global cache rectangle of the last rectangle checked with GdClipArea, for speed
and also to allow the mid level to quickly calculate how partial drawing lengths.</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.1.3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Line Drawing</h3>
 
<p>Line drawing is the simplest of graphics operations.&nbsp; Microwindows supports
GdPoint to draw a point, and GdLine to draw a horizontal, vertical or diagonal (using
Bresenham algorithm) line.&nbsp; Just before any call to the screen driver, a call to
GdCheckCursor assures that the software cursor is removed prior to drawing.&nbsp;
GdFixCursor restores the cursor if previously visible.</p>
 
<p>There is a tricky part to line drawing that had to be added during the support for
multiple API's.&nbsp; This has to do with whether or not the last point in specified line
segment is drawn or not.&nbsp; There are two schools of thought on this, and to make it
short, Microwindows supports both of them.&nbsp; The last parameter to GdLine specifies
whether or not to draw the last point.&nbsp; The Microwindows API doesn't draw the last
point, but the Nano-X API does.</p>
 
<p>Most drawing functions, including line drawing draw using the &quot;current&quot;
foreground color, specified using GdSetForeground.&nbsp; In addition a drawing mode,
currently either MODE_SET or MODE_XOR can be specified using GdSetMode.</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.1.4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rectangles,
Circles, Ellipses</h3>
 
<p>Rectangles, circles and ellipses are drawn using the GdRect and GdEllipse
routines.&nbsp; A circle is an ellipse with the same x and y radius.&nbsp; As with lines,
rectangles and ellipses are drawn using the current foreground color and mode.</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.1.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Polygons</h3>
 
<p>Microwindows supports polygon drawing by specifying an array of x, y points.&nbsp; The
points are then connected using the GdLine function.&nbsp; The current foreground color,
drawing mode, and clip region is used during output.</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.1.6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Area Fills</h3>
 
<p>Microwindows supports filled rectangular areas using the GdFillRect function.&nbsp; The
rectangle's outline and contents are filled using the current foreground color.&nbsp;
Filled circles and ellipses are performed with GdFillEllipse, and polygon fills with
GdFillPoly.&nbsp; Area filling is implemented through successive calls to the DrawHorzLine
in the screen driver, and are much faster if fully not clipped.</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.1.7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Fonts</h3>
 
<p>Both fixed pitch and proportional fonts are supported in Microwindows.&nbsp; Because of
potentially large differences in display hardware, the actual font format is known only to
the screen driver, although a set of standard functions are supplied for dealing with
converted .bdf fonts and Microsoft Windows fonts, if you have a license.&nbsp; The engine
function GdSetFont specifies a font number that is passed to the driver and used to index
a static array of linked in fonts.&nbsp; Screen driver entry points GetTextSize return the
font height and width for a passed string, and GetTextBits returns an individual character
bitmap.&nbsp; The engine layer uses these values to calculate a clipping region for text
drawing, as well as to draw the character as a monochrome bitmap.</p>
 
<p>The screen drivers currently supplied implement both fixed pitch PC ROM based fonts, as
well as a proportional font format that is linked into the screen driver.&nbsp; A few
conversion programs allow conversion of fonts from different formats to the driver
format.&nbsp; Bdftobogl converts X Window System .bdf files to Microwindows format.&nbsp;
Convfnt32 converts raster and truetype Microsoft Windows fonts, if you have a license, to
Microwindows format.&nbsp; Convrom converts PC ROM bios fonts.</p>
 
<p>A number of free fonts are supplied with the system, a heavier proportional 14x16
system font, and a sans-serif 11x13 font for title bar and edit box displays.&nbsp; Any
number of fonts can be linked into the system, and it's fairly easy to dynamically load
fonts if one writes the routines for it.</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.1.8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Text Drawing</h3>
 
<p>Text output is performed by first selecting the desired font with GdSetFont, and then
calling the GdText function.&nbsp; Full text clipping is performed, although currently
there is no &quot;fast&quot; text output entry point in the screen driver, so each
character bitmap is grabbed using the GetTextBits entrypoint and then drawn using
Drawpixel.&nbsp; While this will have to remain the same for partially clipped text, a
screen driver entry point to draw fast text will probably be required shortly.</p>
 
<p>Text is drawn using the current foreground color.&nbsp; The background is drawn if the
current &quot;use background&quot; mode set via GdUseBackground is TRUE.&nbsp; In this
case the background is drawn using the current background color set via
GdSetBackground.&nbsp; The GdText function also takes a bottomAlign parameter that
specifies whether the text is to be bottom or top aligned, to help with differing API's.</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.1.9&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Color model and
palettes</h3>
 
<p>The Microwindows graphics engine requires all colors to be specified as either 24-bit
RGB color values, or in rare cases, as palette indices for speed.&nbsp; The palette index
method will only work on systems that have hardware palettes, so it's not
recommended.&nbsp; All of the upper-level color parameters are specified to the engine
routines using a COLORVAL value, which is a long containing the desired RGB color, created
using the RGB() macro.&nbsp; The engine then converts the COLORVAL to a PIXELVAL value,
which is normally a long also, but on some smaller systems can be compiled as an unsigned
char.&nbsp; The PIXELVAL value is the actual value passed to any screen driver entry point
requiring a color.&nbsp; So the mid level routines all work with RGB COLORVALs, while the
device driver routines all work with PIXELVALs.&nbsp; The graphics engine converts these
values using two routines, GdFindColor and GdFindNearestColor, described below.</p>
 
<p>GdFindColor takes a hardware independent RGB value and converts it to a hardware
dependent PIXELVAL pixel value.&nbsp; In the case of 32bpp display drivers, no conversion
is required.&nbsp; Otherwise for truecolor systems, Microwindows converts the RGB value to
a 5/5/5 15-bit or 5/6/5 16 bit truecolor value.&nbsp; For 8bpp truecolor displays, the RGB
value is converted to 3/3/2.&nbsp; For palletized displays, the GdFindNearestColor
function is called to convert the RGB color to the nearest palette index in the current
system palette.&nbsp; GdFindNearestColor uses a weighted distance-cubed method to find the
palette value nearest to the requested color, and returns it.&nbsp; Standard palettes for
1, 2, 4 and 8bpp are included in the files devpal1, devpal2, devpal4 and devpal8.c.&nbsp;
These palettes associate an RGB value with an index, but may be overwritten.</p>
 
<p>The GdSetPalette function determines whether there are any free entries in the system
palette (discussed shortly) and if so, adds entries to the system palette, and calls the
screen driver SetPalette entry point to set the hardware palette.&nbsp; There is a single
global variable, gr_firstuserpalentry, that contains the index of the next available
system palette entry.&nbsp; Initially, this is set to 24.&nbsp; Thus, systems with less
than 24 total palette entries will never have an available palette entry to remap.&nbsp;
On systems that do, like 256 color systems, then images requiring more color entries keep
calling GdSetPalette until the system palette is full.&nbsp; To reset marker, the function
GdResetPalette is called.&nbsp; This allows upper level API's to distinguish between
different images and force the system palette to be rewritten.</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.1.10&nbsp; Image Drawing</h3>
 
<p>Microwindows supports two styles of images, monochrome and palettized.&nbsp; Monochrome
images are specified with an IMAGEBITS structure, which is an array of words with 1 bits
specifying the foreground color and 0 bits the background.&nbsp; The IMAGEBITS bits are
short-word padded to the width of the bitmap.&nbsp; The GdBitmap routine draws monochrome
bitmaps, similar to GdText, by drawing all the 1 bits in the foreground color, and the 0
bits in the background color if the &quot;use background&quot; set by GdUseBackground is
TRUE.</p>
 
<p>Color bitmaps are specified using a 1, 4 or 8bpp image palette, and an array of indices
into this palette, all stuffed into an IMAGEHDR structure, and drawn via
GdDrawImage.&nbsp; First, the system creates a conversion palette by calling
GdMakePaletteConversionTable, which converts the images' palette entries into system
indices.&nbsp; At the same time, the system attempts to increase the system palette if
necessary by calling the GdSetPalette function described above.&nbsp; At the end of this
operation, the image has a converted palette which necessarily corresponds to the system
palette.&nbsp; In the case of truecolor hardware, the image's palette entries are
converted to hardware truecolor pixel values, and output directly.</p>
 
<p>After converting the image color entries the GdDrawImage determines the whether the
image is clipped, and outputs the image, pixel by pixel.&nbsp; In the future, a blitting
routine could be used for faster image drawing.</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.1.11&nbsp; Blitting</h3>
 
<p>Blitting functionality is required in the screen driver for offscreen drawing
capability, discussed earlier in the screen drivers section.&nbsp; The engine function
GdBlit allows upper level APIs to implement copy operations from offscreen memory to the
display, or vice versa.&nbsp; The blit format is driver specific, and generally only works
for memory images created by the screen driver during runtime.&nbsp; The upper level APIs
implement this by allocating a new SCREENDRIVER structure, copying an existing
SCREENDRIVER structure into it, replacing the address field with a malloc()'d value, and
setting the PSF_MEMORY bit, which indicates to the display driver that this is now an
offscreen surface.&nbsp; Any subsequent calls to the engine routines then draw onto this
surface.&nbsp; When it is desired to copy the offscreen surface back to the physical
display, the GdBlit routine is called.&nbsp; Currently, only SRCCOPY operations are
performed, but future plans will add blitting opcodes.</p>
 
<p>&nbsp;</p>
 
<h3>3. Microwindows API</h3>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Message-passing
architecture</h3>
 
<p>The fundamental communications mechanism in the Microwindows API is the message.&nbsp;
A message consists of a well-known message number, and two parameters, known as wParam and
lParam.&nbsp; Messages are stored in an application's message-queue, and retrieved via the
GetMessage function.&nbsp; The application blocks while waiting for a message.&nbsp; There
are messages that correspond to hardware events, like WM_CHAR for keyboard input or
WM_LBUTTONDOWN for mouse button down.&nbsp; In addtiion, events signaling window creation
and destruction WM_CREATE and WM_DESTROY are sent.&nbsp; In most cases, a message is
associated with a window, identified as an HWND.&nbsp; After retrieving the message, the
application sends the message to the associated window's handling procedure using
DispatchMessage.&nbsp; When a window class is created, it's associated message handling
procedure is specified, so the system knows where to send the message.</p>
 
<p>The message-passing architecture allows the core API to manage many system functions by
sending messages on all sorts of events, like window creation, painting needed, moving,
etc.&nbsp; By default, the associated window handling function gets a &quot;first
pass&quot; at the message, and then calls the DefWindowProc function, which handles
default actions for all the messages.&nbsp; In this way, all windows can behave the same
way when dragged, etc, unless specifically overridden by the user.&nbsp; Major window
management policies can be redefined by merely re-implementing DefWindowProc, rather than
making changes throughout the system.</p>
 
<p>The following functions deal with messages directly:</p>
 
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
SendMessage&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Send a message directly to a window<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
PostMessage&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Queue a message on the application's message queue for later dispatch<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; PostQuitMessage&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Queue a WM_QUIT message telling the application to terminate when read<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GetMessage&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Block until a message is queued for this application<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; TranslateMessage&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Translate up/down keystrokes to WM_CHAR messages<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
DispatchMessage&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Send a
messages to it's associated window procedure</p>
 
<p>A Microwindows application's entry point is the function WinMain, rather than main.</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Window creation and
destruction</h3>
 
<p>The basic unit of screen organization in Microwindows API is the window.&nbsp; Windows
describe an area of the screen to draw onto, as well as an associate &quot;window
procedure&quot; for handling messages destined for this window.&nbsp; Applications
programmers can create windows from pre-defined classes, like buttons, edit boxes, and the
like, or define their own window classes.&nbsp; In both cases, the method of creating and
communicating with the windows remains exactly the same.&nbsp; The following functions
deal with window registration, creation, and destruction:</p>
 
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
RegisterClass&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Define a new window class name and associated window procedure<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
UnRegisterClass&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Undefine
a window class<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; CreateWindowEx&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Create
an instance of a window of a certain class<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
DestroyWindow&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Destroy a
window instance</p>
 
<p>The WM_CREATE message is just after window creation, before returning from
CreateWindowEx.&nbsp; The WM_DESTROY message is sent just before destroying a window with
DestroyWindow. </p>
 
<p>When a window is registered, extra bytes can be allocated to the window structure when
created.&nbsp; The GetWindowLong, GetWindowWord, SetWindowLong and SetWindowWord
manipulate these bytes.&nbsp; In addition, a fixed number of extra bytes per window class
can be allocated on registration and retrieved via the GetClassLong function.</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Window showing,
hiding and moving</h3>
 
<p>The ShowWindow function allows windows to be made visible or hidden.&nbsp; In addition,
this can be specified during the creation of the window, through CreateWindowEx.&nbsp;
MoveWindow is called to change a window's position or size.&nbsp; A WM_MOVE message is
sent if the window's position changes, and WM_SIZE is sent on size changes.</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Window painting</h3>
 
<p>The Microwindows system determines when a window needs to be initially painted or
repainted as the result of other window movement, and a WM_PAINT message is sent to the
associated window procedure.&nbsp; At this point, it's up the the application to use the
graphics primitives available to paint the window, described below.&nbsp; Microwindows
keeps track of a windows' &quot;update&quot; region, and sends WM_PAINT whenever the
region is non-empty.&nbsp; For speed reasons, the WM_PAINT message is only sent when there
are no other messages in the application's queue.&nbsp; This allows the application to
repaint in one, rather than possibly many, steps.&nbsp; To force a repaint rather than
waiting, the UpdateWindow function can be called.&nbsp; The InvalidateRect function
specifies a rectangle to add to the update region, causing a subsequent WM_PAINT.</p>
 
<p>The window title is automatically painted and is set with the SetWindowText function,
and retrieved with the GetWindowText function.</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.4.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Client and screen
coordinates</h3>
 
<p>Every window is drawn on the screen using the device global screen coordinate system
for absolute reference to any pixel on the screen.&nbsp; The Microwindows API allows
applications programmers to be concerned with only the relative coordinates from the upper
left portion of their window, not including the title bar and 3d effects.&nbsp; This
coordinate system is called &quot;client coordinates.&quot;&nbsp; As will be explained
below, the Microwindows programmer has the option of getting a device context in either
screen or client coordinates.&nbsp; If device coordinates are specified, then the
coordinate system is device-based and includes the title area and 3d areas of the
window.&nbsp; Otherwise, the drawable region is clipped to just that&nbsp; area that is
reserved by the system for the application's drawing.&nbsp; The GetClientRect and
GetWindowRect functions return client or screen coordinates for the passed window.&nbsp;
ClientToScreen and ScreenToClient can be called to translate between window coordinate
systems.</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.4.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Device contexts</h3>
 
<p>An applications programmer must obtain a &quot;device context&quot; before calling any
graphics drawing API functions.&nbsp; As explained above, this specifies to the system
which window and what coordinate system are desired, so that these don't have to be passed
to every graphics function.&nbsp; In addition, various other attributes like foreground
and background color are also set in a device context, so that these parameters don't have
to be specified for every graphics operation.&nbsp; The device context selects the
appropriate clipping region based on the window specified and the coordinate system.&nbsp;
When a device context is obtained, various graphics values are set to default values.</p>
 
<p>To obtain a client device context, call GetDC.&nbsp; To obtain a screen device context,
required when drawing onto title bars and the like, call GetWindowDC.&nbsp; In addition,
fancy clipping operations and child/sibling window clipping can be specified if GetDCEx is
called.&nbsp; When finished drawing, the ReleaseDC function must be called to deallocate
the DC.</p>
 
<p>On receipt of the WM_PAINT message, two special calls, BeginPaint and EndPaint are
called, that serve as replacements to the GetDC/ReleaseDC functions.&nbsp; These functions
essentially allocate a DC but also validate the update region so that no subsequent
WM_PAINT messages are generated.&nbsp; BeginPaint also combines the update region and the
clipping region so that user output will only occur where previously invalidated.</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.4.3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Graphics drawing
API</h3>
 
<p>There are many graphics drawing API's in the Microwindows API.&nbsp; Following is a
list, most of these match up to the engine GdXXX functions discussed in section 2.</p>
 
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
SetTextColor&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Set the foreground text color in a DC<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
SetBkColor&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Set the background color in a DC<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GetSysColor&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Get the system color defined for the current look and feel scheme<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
SetBkMode&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Set the use background flag in a DC<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
SetROP2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Set the drawing mode (XOR, SET, etc) for drawing<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
SetPixel&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Draw a pixel in the current fg color<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
MoveToEx&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Prepare to draw a line<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
LineTo&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Draw a line from the last location to this one in the current fg color<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Rectangle&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Draw a rectangle in the current pen color<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
FillRect&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Fill a rectangle with the current brush color<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
TextOut&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Draw text in the current fg/bg color<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
ExtTextOut&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Draw text in the current fg/bg color<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
DrawText&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Draw text or compute text height and width sizes<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
DrawDIB&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Draw a color bitmap<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
SelectObject&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Select a pen, brush or font to use in a DC<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GetStockObject&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Get a predefined standard pen, brush or font<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
CreatePen&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Create a pen of a certain color<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
CreateSolidBrush&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Create a brush of a certain color<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; CreateCompatibleBitmap&nbsp; Create an offscreen area to draw onto<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
DeleteObject&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Delete a pen, brush or bitmap<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; CreateCompatibleDC&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Create an
offscreen DC<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
DeleteDC&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Delete an offscreen DC<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
BitBlit&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Copy from one bitmap in a DC to another<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; GetSystemPaletteEntries&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Get the currently in-use
system palette entries<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; </p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Utility functions</h3>
 
<p>A number of routines are provided for various purposes, described below.&nbsp; In
addition, Microwindows currently exports some helper routines, named WndXXX, that are
useful but subject to change.&nbsp; These are detailed following:</p>
 
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
WndSetDesktopWallpaper&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Set the desktop background image<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
WndSetCursor&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Set the cursor for a window<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
WndRaiseWindow&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Raise a window's z-order<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
WndLowerWindow&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Lower a window's z-order<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
WndGetTopWindow&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Return the topmost window's handle<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
WndRegisterFdInput&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Register to send a message when file descriptor has read data available<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
WndUnregisterFdInput&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Unregister file descriptor for read data messages</p>
 
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GetTickCount&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Return # milliseconds elapsed since startup<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Sleep&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Delay processing for specified milliseconds</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.5.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Setting window
focus</h3>
 
<p>The SetFocus routine is used to pass keyboard focus from one window to another.&nbsp;
Keystrokes are always sent to the window with focus.&nbsp; The WM_SETFOCUS and
WM_KILLFOCUS messages are sent to windows just receiving and losing focus.&nbsp; The
GetActiveWindow routines returns the first non-child ancestor of the focus window, which
is the window that is currently highlighted.&nbsp; The GetDesktopWindow routine returns
the window handle of the desktop window.</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.5.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mouse capture</h3>
 
<p>Normally, Microwindows sends WM_MOUSEMOVE messages to the window the mouse is currently
moving over.&nbsp; If desired, the 7applications programmer can &quot;capture&quot; the
mouse and receive all mouse move messages by calling SetCapture.&nbsp; ReleaseCapture
returns the processing to normal.&nbsp; In addition, the GetCapture function will return
the window with capture, if any.</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.5.3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rectangle and
Region management</h3>
 
<p>There are a number of functions that are used for rectangles and regions.&nbsp;
Following is the group:</p>
 
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
SetRect&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Define a rectangle structure<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
SetRectEmpty&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Define an empty rectangle<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
CopyRect&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Copy a rectangle<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
IsRectEmpty&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Return TRUE if empty rectangle<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
InflateRect&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Enlarge a rectangle<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
OffsetRect&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Move a rectangle<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
PtInRect&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Determine if a point is in a rectangle<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; </p>
 
<p>A large number of region management routines are defined and declared in the winrgn.c
file. </p>
 
<p>&nbsp;</p>
 
<h3>4. Nano-X API</h3>
 
<p>The Nano-X API was originally designed by David Bell, with his mini-x package for the
MINIX operating system.&nbsp; Nano-X is now running on top of the core graphics engine
routines discussed in section 2.&nbsp; Nano-X was designed for a client/server
environment, as no pointers to structures are passed to the API routines, instead a call
is made to the server to get an ID, which is passed to the API functions and is used to
reference the data on the server.&nbsp; In addition, Nano-X is not message-oriented,
instead modeled after the X protocol which was designed for speed on systems where the
client and server machines were different.</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Client/Server model</h3>
 
<p>In Nano-X, there are two linking mechanisms that can be used for applications
programs.&nbsp; In the client/server model, the application program is linked with a
client library that forms a UNIX socket connection with the Nano-X server, a separate
process.&nbsp; Each application then communicates all parameters over the UNIX
socket.&nbsp; For speed and debugging, it is sometimes desirable to link the application
directly with the server.&nbsp; In this case, a stub library is provided that just passes
the client routines parameters to the server function.</p>
 
<p>The Nano-X naming convention uses GrXXX to designate client side callable routines,
with a marshalling layer implemented in the files nanox/client.c, nanox/nxproto.c, and
nanox/srvnet.c. &nbsp; The client/server network layer currently uses a fast approach to
marshalling the data from the Gr routine into a buffer, and sent all at once to the
receiving stubs in nanox/srvnet.c, before calling the server drawing routines in
nanox/srvfunc.c.&nbsp; In the linked application scenario, the Nano-X client links
directly with the functions in nanox/srvfunc.c, and the nanox/client.c and nanox/srvnet.c
files are not required.</p>
 
<p>A Nano-X application must call GrOpen before calling any other Nano-X function, and
call GrClose before exiting.&nbsp; These functions establish a connection with the server
when running the client/server model, and return an error status if the server can't be
found or isn't currently running.</p>
 
<p>The main loop in a Nano-X application is to create some windows, define the events you
want with GrSelectEvents, and then wait for an event with GrGetNextEvent.&nbsp; If it is
desired to merely check for an event, but not wait if there isn't one, GrCheckNextEvent
can be used.&nbsp; GrPeekEvent can be used to examine the next event without removing it
from the queue.</p>
 
<p>When running Nano-X programs in the client/server model, it's currently necessary to
run the server first in a shell script, then wait a second, then run the
application.&nbsp; Some rewriting is needed to fire up the server when an application
requires it, I believe.</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;4.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Events</h3>
 
<p>Nano-X applications specify which events they would like to see on a per-window basis
using GrSelectEvents.&nbsp; Then, in the main loop, the application calls GrGetNextEvent
and waits for one of the event types selected for in any of the windows.&nbsp; Typically,
a switch statement is used to determine what to do after receiving the event.&nbsp; This
is similar to the Microwindows's API GetMessage/DispatchMessage loop, except that in
Microwindows API, DispatchMessage is used to send the event to the window's handling
procedure, typically located with the window object.&nbsp; In Nano-X, all the event
handling code for each of the windows must be placed together in the main event loop,
there is no automatic dispatching.&nbsp; Of course, widget sets serve to provide
object-orientation, but this is in addition to the Nano-X API.</p>
 
<p>Following are the event types that Nano-X programs can recieve:</p>
 
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; GR_EVENT_TYPE_NONE, ERROR, EXPOSURE, BUTTON_DOWN, BUTTON_UP,
MOUSE_ENTER, MOUSE_EXIT, MOUSE_MOTION, MOUSE_POSITION, KEY_UP, KEY_DOWN, FOCUS_IN,
FOCUS_OUT, FDINPUT</p>
 
<p>Note that Nano-X API provides mouse enter and exit events whereas Microwindows API does
not.&nbsp; Also, the exposure events are calculated and sent immediately by the server,
and not combined and possibly delayed for better paint throughput as in the Microwindows
API.</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;4.3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Window creation and destruction</h3>
 
<p>Windows are created in Nano-X with the GrNewWindow function.&nbsp; Windows can be
specified to be input-only, in which case the GrNewInputWindow function is used.&nbsp; The
window border and color is specified in these calls, but will have to be rewritten when
fancier window dressings are required.&nbsp; The return value from these functions is an
ID that can be used in later calls to get a graphics context or perform window
manipulation.</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4.4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Window showing,
hiding and moving</h3>
 
<p>Windows are shown by calling the GrMapWindow function, and hidden using
GrUnmapWindow.&nbsp; Mapping a window is required for all ancestors of a window in order
for it to be visible.&nbsp; The GrRaiseWindow call is used to raise the Z order of a
window, while GrLowerWindow is used to lower the Z order.&nbsp; GrMoveWindow is used to
change the position of a window, and GrResizeWindow is used to resize a window.</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Drawing to a window</h3>
 
<p>Nano-X requires both a window ID and a graphics context ID in order to draw to a
window.&nbsp; Nano-X sends expose events to the application when a window needs to be
redrawn.&nbsp; Unlike the Microwindows API, Nano-X clients are typically required to
create their drawing graphics contexts early on and keep them for the duration of the
application.&nbsp; Like Microwindows though, the graphics contexts record information like
the current background and foreground colors so they don't have to be specified in every
graphics API call.</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4.5.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Graphics contexts</h3>
 
<p>To allocate a graphics context for a window, call GrNewGC.&nbsp; On termination, call
GrDestroyGC.&nbsp; GrCopyGC can be used to copy on GC to another.&nbsp; GrGetGCInfo is
used to retrieve the settings contained in a GC.&nbsp; After creating a graphics context,
the server returns a graphics context ID.&nbsp; This is then used as a parameter in all
the graphics drawing API functions.&nbsp; In Nano-X programs, the current clipping region
and window coordinate system aren't stored with the GC, as they are in Microwindows'
DCs.&nbsp; This is because, first, Nano-X doesn't support dual coordinate systems for
drawing to the &quot;window dressing&quot; area versus the &quot;user&quot; area of the
window (window and client coordinates in Microwindows).&nbsp; User programs can't draw the
border area of the window, only a single color and width can be specified.&nbsp; Although
resembling X, this will have to change, so that widget sets can specify the look and feel
of all aspects of the windows they maintain.&nbsp; Since the clipping region isn't
maintained with the graphics context, but instead with the window data structure, Nano-X
applications must specify both a window ID and a graphics context ID when calling any
graphics API function.&nbsp; Because of this, many Nano-X applications allocate all
graphics contexts in the beginning of the program, and hold them throughout execution,
since the graphics contexts hold only things like foreground color, etc, and no window
information.&nbsp; This cannot be done with Microwindows API because the DC's contain
window clipping information and must be released before processing the next message.</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4.5.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Graphics drawing
API</h3>
 
<p>Following are the graphics drawing functions available with Nano-X.&nbsp; Like
Microwindows API, these all match up eventually to the graphics engine GdXXX routines.</p>
 
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrGetGCTextSize&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Return text width and height information<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrClearWindow&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Clear a window to it's background color<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrSetGCForeground&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Set the foreground color in a graphics context<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrSetGCBackground&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Set the background color in a graphics context<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; GrSetGCUseBackground&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Set the &quot;use background color&quot; in a graphics context<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrSetGCMode&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Set the drawing mode<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrSetGCFont&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Set the font<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrPoint&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Draw a point in the passed gc's foreground color<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrLine&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Draw a line in the passed gc's foreground color<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrRect&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Draw a rectangle in passed gc's foreground color<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrFillRect&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Fill a rectangle with the passed gc's foreground color<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrEllipse&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Draw a circle or ellipse with the passed gc's foreground color<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrFillEllipse&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Fill a circle or ellipse with the passed gc's foreground color<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrPoly&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Draw a polygon using the passed gc's foreground color<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrFillPoly&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Fill a polygon using the passed gc's foreground color<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrText&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Draw a text string using the foreground and possibly background colors<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrBitmap&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Draw an image using a passed monocrhome bitmap, use fb/bg colors<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrArea&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Draw a rectangular area using the passed device-dependent pixels<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrReadArea&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Read the pixel values from the screen and return them<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; GrGetSystemPaletteEntries&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Get
the currently in-use system palette entries<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; GrFindColor&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Translate an RGB color value to a PIXELVAL pixel value<br>
</p>
 
<h3>&nbsp;&nbsp; 4.6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Utility functions</h3>
 
<p>Various functions serve as utility functions to manipulate windows and provide other
information.&nbsp; These include the following:</p>
 
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrSetBorderColor&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Set the border color of a window.&nbsp; Not suitable for 3d look and feel.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrSetCursor&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Set the cursor bitmap for the window.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrMoveCursor&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Move the cursor to absolute screen coordinates.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrSetFocus&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Set the keyboard input focus window.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrRedrawScreen&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Redraw the entire screen.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrGetScreenInfo&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Return information about the size of the physical display.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrGetWindowInfo&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Return information about the passed window.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrGetGCInfo&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Return information about the passed graphics context.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrGetFontInfo&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Return information about the passed font number.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GrRegisterInput&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Register a file descriptor to return an event when read data available<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; GrPrepareSelect
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Prepare the fd_set and maxfd variables for using Nano-X as a passive library<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; GrServiceSelect
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Callback the passed GetNextEvent routine when Nano-X has events requiring processing<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; GrMainLoop
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
A convenience routine for a typical Nano-X application main loop</p>
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