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From: stergios@athsys.uucp (Stergios Marinopoulos)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XSendEvent, how do I use it...
Keywords: Status = 0, never succeeds
Message-ID: <159@cyclopes.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 88 17:06:45 GMT
References: <3111@mit-amt>
Reply-To: stergios%athsys.uucp@sun.com (Stergios Marinopoulos)
Organization: Xpert Xports
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Do not forget to fill in the 'format' field in the XClientMessageEvent
or else none of your data will be copied by the server. Use  one of 8,
16,   or 32 depending  on your  use   of  char,  short,   or int field
respectively in XClientMessageEvent union member data.

I do not believe this is documented in the O'Reilly  manuals, and I am
not sure about the Xlib manual (read  my  search was  not exhaustive).
When I noticed  the problem I  started  digging in  the X11r2  mit sun
server and found what I was doing wrong.

This may not solve your particular problem but it will be necessary
inorder for correct usage OF XSendEvent.


Stergios Marinopoulos