[Gambas-user] Trouble with X11.GetWindowProperty()

[Martin Fischer]

Benoit,

I see. 
For me, thats OK.

Thanks,
Martin


Am 24. September 2023 21:47:37 MESZ schrieb "Benoît Minisini" <benoit.minisini at gambas-basic.org>:
>Le 24/09/2023 à 21:34, Martin Fischer a écrit :
>> Hi fellow gambassins,
>> 
>> I want to read the value of the WM_CLASS X11 atom by using
>>    X11.GetWindowProperty(winId, "WM_CLASS")
>> 
>> WM_CLASS is a string-atom, so GetWindowProperty should return a Variant
>> containing a String[] (one string for instanceName, one for className).
>> 
>> BUT what I get is a Variant containing a single String that contains the
>> NULL bytes that terminate the C-strings.
>> In the debugger such a string (for the Firefox window) looks like:
>>    "Navigator\x00firefox\x00"
>> 
>> Now: is this a bug or a feature?
>> 
>> Sure. I can read this string as stream like so:
>> 
>
>It seems that the WM_CLASS property has a special format, as there are special dedicated X11 methods to read or write it.
>
>Apparently it's two null terminated strings sticked, the first one being the application class, the second one the application name.
>
>Regards,
>
>-- 
>Benoît Minisini.
>
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