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From: brucek@hpsrla.HP.COM (Bruce Kleinman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X (don't) SelectInput?
Message-ID: <3440001@hpsrla.HP.COM>
Date: 20 May 88 20:51:51 GMT
Organization: HP Network Measurements Div - Santa Rosa, CA
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From the book of X (HP's Programming With the X Windows System) ...

    " XSelectInput defines which input events the window is interested in.
      If a window is not interested in an event, it usually will propagate
      up to the closest ancestor that is interested. "

It will *usually* propagate up?  I am looking for a more definite definition.

I would like to create a window with no input event handling of its own.
Specifically, I would like input events to map through to the root window.
What I need is the 'inverse' of a transparent window - a window that obscures
other windows for the purposes of *output* only.  Any ideas?

BTW, before anyone points out how easy this is in X11: I am using X10.


                              Bruce Kleinman
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