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CLIM's Silica layer

Thursday, September 16, 2004

CLIM literature often mentions the "Silica layer". But since the CLIM 2.0 specification doesn't mention this informal name at all, there may be some confusion on what it actually is.

Silica, which is among the lowest layers of CLIM, provides the services of an abstract window system. In turn, it is usually based on the services of a host window system, such as CLX on Unix. Silica has facilities for creating windows and managing their hierarchical relationships, handling input events, providing graphical and textual output primitives, repainting, and dispatching events.

The Silica layer is mostly described in Part III Windowing Substrate of the CLIM specification, from Chapter 6 Overview of Window Facilities to Chapter 8 Sheet Protocols.


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