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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Really waiting for events.
Message-ID: <1990Jul11.180457.20390@wrl.dec.com>
Date: 11 Jul 90 18:04:57 GMT
References: <MARKF.90Jul11112029@montreux.ai.mit.edu>
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In article <MARKF.90Jul11112029@montreux.ai.mit.edu>, markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu
(Mark Friedman) writes:
|> What do I do when I want to wait for an event from ANY of the displays
|> that I have opened? On unix I suppose I could do a select using the
|> ConnectionNumber's from the various displays, but this is not
|> portable.

There is no portable way to do this.  Perhaps X11R5 should provide more
convenience functions for managing multiple displays?  One idea would be
a set of X*Event functions that accepted a list of displays.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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