Re: Managing keyboard variants

[Sever P A <gnu sever gmail com>]

2009/9/25 Sever P A <gnu sever gmail com>:
> 2009/9/20 Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>:
>> On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 10:04 +0200, Sever P A wrote:
>>> * Are the same the value of xkl_engine_get_instance (Display *
>>> display) [of LibXklavier] than the value pointed of
>>> Gtk::Main::instance() ...?
>>
>> No, they are entirely unrelated.
>>
>> Googling suggests that you can use GDK_DISPLAY() to get the Display*.
>> Thats an X Windows thing.
>> http://developer.gimp.org/api/2.0/gdk/gdk-X-Window-System-Interaction.html#GDK-DISPLAY:CAPS
>
> Thanks to Murray Cumming's answer, and after a few reading of the API
> reference, I done,
>
>        Gdk::Display dpy;
>        XklEngine * engine;
>        engine = xkl_engine_get_instance(dpy.get_default());
>
> But the compiler tells me,
>
> error: cannot convert ‘Glib::RefPtr<Gdk::Display>’ to ‘Display*’ for
> argument ‘1’ to ‘XklEngine* xkl_engine_get_instance(Display*)’
>
> What's wrong ?... Are the pointer "*" and "Glib::RefPtr" not the same
> ?... Could be solved anyway ?...
>

Ups ! sorry, I just see that it's not also possible to do

    Gdk::Display dpy;

What do you suggest ?

S.