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From: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XGrabPointer and ButtonPress
Message-ID: <2664@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 89 21:44:22 GMT
References: <1481@trantor.harris-atd.com>
Reply-To: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Organization: Daisy Systems Corp., Mountain View, Ca.
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In article <1481@trantor.harris-atd.com> mac@trantor.harris-atd.com (Mike McDonald) writes:
>X Protocol error:  BadAccess, attempt to access private resource denied

The protocol error indicates that another client has already grabbed the
pointer.  Is that possible?  Does the window manager have it?  We do the
same sort of thing, with an XGrabPointer after the ButtonPress event, and
it works fine for us.

Ken Lee
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klee@daisy.uucp
Daisy Systems Corp., Interactive Graphics Tools Dept.