Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!arisia!sgi!daisy!klee
From: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: too many motion notify events
Message-ID: <2205@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 88 21:46:35 GMT
References: <10759@tekecs.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Organization: Daisy Systems Corp., Mountain View, Ca.
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In article <10759@tekecs.TEK.COM> antoniof@af.UUCP (Antonio Freixas) writes:
>An alternative approach is the following:
>
>	case MotionNotify:
>	    /* Find the latest motion event on the queue. Discard
>	       all the others */
>	    while (XCheckMaskEvent(dpy, PointerMotionMask, &e_temp)) {
>		e = e_temp;
>	    }

This should be about the same as using PointerMotionHints and
XQueryPointer.  In fact, PointerMotionHints may be more efficient, since
the server doesn't send as much stuff back to the client.

Ken Lee
Daisy Systems Corp., Interactive Graphics Tools Dept.
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