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[platform-swt-dev] Re: [platform-dev] obtain a X11 Display handle from a swt widget in linux
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Nicolas Gendron (nicolas.gendron@xxxxxxxxx):
> I'm looking for a way to play video media in a SWT interface. I was
> looking for JMF (java media framework) but it is slow on my computer.
>
> So I discovered FFMPEG, a codec library. They provide a little
> application called ffplay which uses the plugin and play video files
> in a X11 Window. They use X11 Display. Is it possible to go deep in
> the implementation of SWT to obtain a X11 Display?
>
> I know the application will not be multi platform if I do that, but
> for the moment it is ok for me.
You don't have to go too deep. If you create a Composite with the
style bit SWT.EMBEDDED, it will create a GtkSocket. This will set the
variable composite.embeddedHandle on that composite to be the window ID
which you can pass to clients which support XEMBED.
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkSocket.html
IIRC, ffplay uses SDL to display video. If so, you could probably
fork off an ffplay process after setting the SDL_WINDOWID environment
variable to be the embeddedHandle of the composite. I think this might
"just work".
-Billy