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From: jcb@frisbee.Sun.COM (Jim Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xscope Enhancements
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Date: 20 Jul 89 22:39:49 GMT
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olaf@tubopal.UUCP (Olaf Heimburger) writes:

->Has someone written enhancements for xscope to (a) save X requests to a
->file and (b) replay X requests from a file?


Using this approach to provide journalling functions to running X clients
has the drawback that the XIDs are different between runs of the client
application. Also there is enormous amounts of information that would need
to be stored for a single session. And of course you never know if the
next run of the client will be as successful as the first.. :-)

This past spring I posted some changes to the Sun MIT X11R2 ddx code that
provided journalling via capturing the input of the user (keyboard and mouse
raw events). This allows the playback session to include all user actions,
including multiple applications and use of the window manager. It appeared
to work pretty well in all my uses, and was only ~700 lines.

I'm curious if people ever used this stuff.. I was off the net for a couple
of months after the posting and never heard. Occasionally there are postings
asking about journalling and I have never seen other solutions mentioned.


->Regards,
->--olaf


-Jim Becker		jcb@sun.com