[Development] Question on QWS/QPA

[Samuel Rødal]

On 12/11/2012 09:53 AM, Arunprasad Rajkumar wrote:
> Hi Samuel,
>
> Thanks for your reply. We would like to have only QtWebKit widget and
> not going to use QtQuick at this moment. So by default QPA/QWS client
> will render widgets on shared memory allocated via Qt and draws on it.
> Once done it request the QPA/QWS server to do the composition of
> widgets. Am I right?
>
> As I mentioned, I would like to proxy the rendering calls(not all, only
> few like blit/fill) to server. Is there anyway to differentiate Server &
> Client process in gfxplugin? Some Qt QWS documents
> <http://doc.qt.digia.com/qt/qt-embedded-accel.html>says like,
>
> "The connect() <http://doc.qt.digia.com/qt/qscreen.html#connect> and
> disconnect() <http://doc.qt.digia.com/qt/qscreen.html#disconnect> are
> called by both the server and client processes, while the initDevice()
> <http://doc.qt.digia.com/qt/qscreen.html#initDevice> and
> shutdownDevice()
> <http://doc.qt.digia.com/qt/qscreen.html#shutdownDevice> functions are
> only called by the server process."
>
> Once I differentiate it, then I can proxy the rendering calls.

Unfortunately I'm only familiar with QPA and not with QWS. In QPA (at 
least in Qt 5) there's QBlittablePlatformPixmap and QBlittable which 
might let you do something like that.

--
Samuel