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From: jcb@frisbee.Eng.Sun.COM (Jim Becker)
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Subject: Re: looking ahead in X event queue
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Date: 23 Jan 91 23:13:51 GMT
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desai@progress.COM (Jatin Desai) writes:

    I  think  the  trick  is  to  use  XCheckIfEvent  with a predicate
    function which always returns False, but stores  the  real  return
    status which gets checked after XCheckIfEvent returns.

    Jatin Desai
    Progress Software
    desai@progress.com


The  only  downside to this `trick' is you have to traverse the entire
event queue every time you want to look for something.  But  it  is  a
legal way to do what is desired.

-Jim

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