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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: bug with mit server on sun sparc staion?
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.111406@wsl.dec.com>
Date: 5 Mar 91 19:14:06 GMT
References: <26948@netcom.COM>
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In article <26948@netcom.COM>, aed@netcom.COM (Andrew Davidson) writes:
|> (I am new to X and do not know where to post bugs). My code
|> works when run on a sun sparc 1+ running openwindows version 2 X
|> server, but not when I run with the MIT x server  on the same machine?
|> 
|> X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range
|> for operation)
|>   Major opcode of failed request:  25 (X_SendEvent)
|>   Resource id in failed request:  0xffffffff

XSendEvent() requires that the event mask specify only valid events.
Your mask (0xffffffff) specifies some invalid events.  You should
change this to specify only valid events.  Some older X servers were
sloppy about checking this, but most recent ones will correctly give
you the BadValue error.

-- 
Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com
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