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From: logan@crystel.UUCP (Mark)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Receiving XEvents asynchronously
Message-ID: <129@crystel.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 91 20:42:07 GMT
Reply-To: logan@crystel.UUCP (Mark)
Organization: Secure Online Systems, Inc, Los Angeles, CA
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I am trying to write a program, using Xlib right now, which receives
input from several sockets and displays them on the screen.
(I am using a SPARCstation SLC with SunOS 4.1 and OpenWindows.)
The only way I can think of doing this is polling, which I am unhappy
with for performance reasons.

I call XCheckMaskEvent() to check for an event, and then I call
select() on the socket file descriptors with a timeout of 1 second.
I would rather use something like select() to check for input from
the XEvent list at the same time as the sockets.

Can anyone think of a way to do this?

Thanks in advance,
Mark Logan  uunet!lcc!turnkey!crystel!logan