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From: asente@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Asente)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: breaking out of XtMainLoop()
Keywords: X Toolkit, XtMainLoop
Message-ID: <1344@bacchus.dec.com>
Date: 19 Apr 89 04:16:00 GMT
References: <44097@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: DEC Western Software Lab
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In article <44097@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <cso@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>Someone else must have wanted to do this, so pleeeease give me a clue
>because at the moment I am without one!  I am trying to keep at the X
>Toolkit level, without trying to rewrite a main loop or use too many
>Xlib routines.

Don't be afraid to write your own main loop!  XtAppMainLoop is just intended
as a convenience.  Here's the code:

void XtAppMainLoop(app)
        XtAppContext app;
{
    XEvent event;

    for (;;) {
        XtAppNextEvent(app, &event);
        XtDispatchEvent(&event);
    }
}

As you can see, it only uses public interfaces.  You can use XtNextEvent
instead of XtAppNextEvent if you are using the default application context.

	-paul asente
	    asente@decwrl.dec.com	decwrl!asente