Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!sgi!daisy!klee
From: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Xt and applications that do non-window-related processing
Message-ID: <2696@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 89 18:49:29 GMT
References: <626@arisia.Xerox.COM>
Reply-To: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Organization: Daisy Systems Corp., Mountain View, Ca.
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In article <626@arisia.Xerox.COM> jlevy.pa@xerox.com (Jacob Levy) writes:
>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.

XtAppMainLoop is just an infinite loop calling XtAppNextEvent() and
XtDispatchEvent().  If you want, you can do anything else and call these
2 routines when you feel like it.  If you're expecting both widget and
non-widget events, you can add the non-widget events to the dispatch table
or process them separately with your own dispatch routine.

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