Question about wine XWindow to HWND mapping

[Brandon Adkins]

Hi guys. 
I am working on porting a Windows application over to Linux, and my hope is to use Wine to make that go as quickly as possible. In my research, I have found one possible hangup, and hopefully you guys can answer it in a few minutes, vs the week or so of work for me to test it out myself.
Long story short, I have an application which creates child HWNDs. The application also launches separate processes. When WM_PAINT messages come in for those child HWNDs, it passes the HWND to one of the other processes, and that other process is the one that actually draws on it.
This works great on Windows. But I have found out that Wine only makes XWindows for top level HWNDs. So my question is: Can an application in wine perform operations (like drawing, BitBlting) onto a child HWND owned by another process?
Any tips or guidance you can give will be greatly appreciated.
Best regards!

Allowing child HWND to be shared across multiple processes

[Brandon Adkins]

Hi guys. 
If this is the wrong forum for this question, please direct me to the correct one.
I am working on porting a Windows application over to Linux, and my hope is to use Wine to make that go as quickly as possible. In my research, I have found one possible hangup, and hopefully you guys can answer it in a few minutes, vs the week or so of work for me to test it out myself.
Long story short, I have an application which creates child HWNDs. The application also launches separate processes. When WM_PAINT messages come in for those child HWNDs, it passes the HWND to one of the other processes, and that other process is the one that actually draws on it.
This works great on Windows. But I have found out that Wine only makes XWindows for top level HWNDs. So my question is: Can an application in wine perform operations (like drawing, BitBlting) onto a child HWND owned by another process?
Any tips or guidance you can give will be greatly appreciated. 
Best regards!

Allowing child HWND to be shared across multiple processes

[Stefan Dösinger]

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Hi,

I don't have an answer to your question, but I want to make sure you
get some reply. This mailing list is the correct place to ask, and the
lack of replies most likely means that nobody else knows what could be
wrong in your case.

Did you already try to run this application on Wine? If you did, and
it doesn't work (I assume that otherwise you wouldn't have sent a
mail), can you describe what goes wrong? (e.g. "GetDC on the remote
HWND fails", or function XYZ crashes).

You observed correctly that only top level windows in Wine have a
matching X11 window. Child windows are managed purely in Wine. The
reason for this are some message handling differences between Windows
and X11.

Generally cross-process HWND access should work on X11 (but afaik not
on OSX, but that knowledge is about 7 years old). There are plenty of
applications that do this kind of thing. Though it is certainly
possible that child windows are a case that's rarely used. (Though I
think Google chrome draws tabs in separate processes, and I'd assume
they're child windows...)

Cheers,
Stefan


Am 2016-03-22 um 19:18 schrieb Brandon Adkins:
> Hi guys.
>
> If this is the wrong forum for this question, please direct me to
> the correct one.
>
> I am working on porting a Windows application over to Linux, and my
> hope is to use Wine to make that go as quickly as possible. In my
> research, I have found one possible hangup, and hopefully you guys
> can answer it in a few minutes, vs the week or so of work for me to
> test it out myself.
>
> Long story short, I have an application which creates child HWNDs.
> The application also launches separate processes. When WM_PAINT
> messages come in for those child HWNDs, it passes the HWND to one
> of the other processes, and that other process is the one that
> actually draws on it.
>
> This works great on Windows. But I have found out that Wine only
> makes XWindows for top level HWNDs. So my question is: Can an
> application in wine perform operations (like drawing, BitBlting)
> onto a child HWND owned by another process?
>
> Any tips or guidance you can give will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Best regards!

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