I tried labc to see what the state of it is. What I found is it is still lacking in the GUI support department and serial device support.
Specific examples are:
In code:blocks which is an IDE for code development most of it is functional with the exception of trying to dock a window. In X11 there is a detection of the edge of window pane when you get close with the window you are docking (it turns blue and you can drop the window). In labwc the window pane edge detection doesn't seem to work at all which means you can not dock a window.
Within a program you can use the file open to connect to a USB serial device. Then use read and write functions receive or send data. In labwc if there is no data in the input buffer the read returns a -1 instead of 0. -1 is considered an error in X11. This makes flushing the input queue or waiting for data to be received over the serial interface difficult nearly impossible since you can't distinguish between a device error and an empty queue.
Specific examples are:
In code:blocks which is an IDE for code development most of it is functional with the exception of trying to dock a window. In X11 there is a detection of the edge of window pane when you get close with the window you are docking (it turns blue and you can drop the window). In labwc the window pane edge detection doesn't seem to work at all which means you can not dock a window.
Within a program you can use the file open to connect to a USB serial device. Then use read and write functions receive or send data. In labwc if there is no data in the input buffer the read returns a -1 instead of 0. -1 is considered an error in X11. This makes flushing the input queue or waiting for data to be received over the serial interface difficult nearly impossible since you can't distinguish between a device error and an empty queue.
Statistics: Posted by MSBgol — Thu Oct 31, 2024 8:50 am