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Subject: Re: X (don't) SelectInput?
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Date: 22 May 88 00:29:06 GMT
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> What I need is the 'inverse' of a transparent window - a window that obscures
> other windows for the purposes of *output* only.  Any ideas?

Sure would be nice, but it doesn't exist, either in X10 or X11. It would be *really*
nice if one could restrict input to a region, but I'm sure Bob S. and Jim G. would
have aged much more than they have already if they tried to design that
in for us. (At least Jim seems to be recovering nicely from his experience...).
If we had input clipping to a region, I believe we would have what Bill Joy
has been crying for: relief from the "curse" of the rectanglular window.
(Shudder shudder). It's my understanding that we would pay for this hack
with poorer performance overall.

-chuck