Re: [pygame] get_wm_info on linux

[John <john-pygame@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi

i create subwindow for mplayer like this:

first you need some imports:

from ctypes import *
Xlib = CDLL("libX11.so.6")
Xtst = CDLL("libXtst.so.6")


def create_subwindow(x,y,width,height):
   pygame_win = pygame.display.get_wm_info()["window"]
   dpy = Xtst.XOpenDisplay(None)
   win = Xlib.XCreateSimpleWindow (dpy, pygame_win, x,y,width,height,0,0,1)
   Xlib.XCirculateSubwindows(dpy,win,1)
   Xlib.XFlush(dpy)
   return win

you can then force mplayer into that subwindow: 
yourfavoriteexeccommand("mplayer -wid %s" % (win))

you can resize it like this:

def move_subwin(win,x,y,width,height):
   dpy = Xtst.XOpenDisplay(None)
   Xlib.XMoveResizeWindow(dpy,win,x,y,width,height)
   Xlib.XFlush(dpy)

and you can destroy it like this:

def destroy_subwin(win):
   dpy = Xtst.XOpenDisplay(None)
   Xlib.XDestroyWindow(dpy,win)
   Xlib.XFlush(dpy)

hope it helps :)


Lenard Lindstrom wrote:
> Greg Ewing wrote:
> > > It seems like it should be possible to get the
> > > long from the PyCObject (info['display']) just as well
> > > as it was done from the c code
> >
> > PyCObjects are opaque from Python code -- there's no way
> > to extract an address from one without using C code.
> ctypes can.