FVWM: Loads of features

From: Robert Nation 885-9815 <rnation_at_mansvr.sanders.lockheed.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 96 11:02:32 EST

>chuck_hines> Restoring has been on the TO-DO list. More than enough
>chuck_hines> people have missed it to warrant that...
>
>Here is a patch against 2.0.40, a sample implementation of TogglePage
>based on the code of fvwm-1.24r.


Some of you may have noticed that it is not hard to add functions to
fvwm. TogglePage isn't the ideal example, because it tinkers with
a few functions outside of its own execution, but I'll go on anyway.....

Most unix systems these days have the option to dynamically load object
files to a running program (gnu:dld, sun: dlopen/sym/etc, OSF1:dlopen/sym/etc)
has anyone thought of making most of the functions dynamically loaded modules?
They could be loaded on demand - if you don't find a function, you can
dynamically load it if you can locate its .o file.

I thought of doing this a long time ago, but it adds complexity to
the build-process - since you need to accomodate systems that lack the
dl* functions.

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Received on Mon Jan 29 1996 - 10:03:13 GMT

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