Way(land) back when#

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:49:06 +0000

It's been a little while since I made progress on psadan ($dayjob and daddy duty), but from looking at the commit log I see it's even longer since I wrote about any of it. So:

I wrote a macro. with-sync does what he name suggests: it executes its body, then sends a sync message to the wl_display, then waits for the callback. This is the standard Wayland way to make sure that stuff has finished happening before doing more stuff. The actual macro implementation was pretty similar to writing macros in CL except that the quasiquote escape is ~ not , - and that this is a Lisp-1, so declaring a local variable called promise turns out to be a bad idea when you also want to call the function (promise)

We refactored the handle-message and listen functions to return the new state of the agent that runs them, instead of keeping the globals in an atom inside it. Bcause we only update globals through the agent, this saves us from having to keep them in an atom, which felt kind of ugly.

And finally: psadan now parses the wl_drm protocol as well as the regular one - that bit was easy, it's just another file of XML to parse. This is however where I got bogged down quite comprehensively in how we actually use the stuff though: there are a lot of bits. I'm hoping that JOGL , possibly in conjunction with its Pbuffer support, is (a) relevant, (b) sufficient, but even then there's titting around with ioctls to be done which is not readily doable in the JVM.