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From: jlevy@arisia.Xerox.COM (Jacob Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Xt and applications that do non-window-related processing
Message-ID: <626@arisia.Xerox.COM>
Date: 16 Feb 89 06:12:10 GMT
Reply-To: jlevy.pa@xerox.com (Jacob Levy)
Organization: Xerox PARC
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Suppose I wanted to write an application that sat in an infinite
loop and only every so often checked for input from X. It is
simple to do this with Xlib, but seems a lot hairier with Xt.
What's involved is at the very least doing your own dispatching
and event processing. I know that this is possible using the
low-level Xt intrinsics, but I want to save myself some pain in
learning how to do it - is there someone out there in Netland who
has done this before?

Could someone help me out on this with example or skeleton code,
or at least with ideas and suggestions based on their own
experience?

Thanks,

--Jacob