Embedding a framebuffer window

The project can be split into two main parts:

Creating a new Qt framebuffer
Embedding a framebuffer window

I started by creating a new cross-platform Qt framebuffer which was implemented almost completely until midterm evaluation. More information about my work in that period can be found here.

In the second part I worked at embedding a framebuffer window in the existing Qt display manager. Even though I encountered quite a lot of unexpected problems (bad drawings, drawings that disappeared) in the end I managed to successfully embed a framebuffer window. I can say that when I saw correct and permanent drawings made in mged I was really relieved and also really excited.

Apart from embedding a framebuffer window, I also added support for keyboard and mouse events and for using, reading and writing a colormap to the framebuffer.

When it comes to the actual code, it can almost all be found in libfb/if_qt.cpp and libdm/dm-qt.cpp. As I predicted in the first part, in order to embed a frambuffer window another 800 lines of code were necessary.