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From: tom@capella.ucsb.edu (Tom Weinstein)
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Subject: Re: Processing toolkit events
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Date: 15 Feb 90 02:00:41 GMT
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In-reply-to: asente@decwrl.dec.com's message of 15 Feb 90 00:11:10 GMT

In article <2759@bacchus.dec.com> asente@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Asente) writes:
In article <3947@hub.UUCP> tom@bears.ucsb.edu writes:
>>   while (XtAppPending(context)) {
>>     XtAppNextEvent(context, &event);
>>     XtDispatchEvent(&event);
>>   }

>> However, this seems to block when there are no events in the queue.  Am
>> I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?

> Are you using timers or alternate input sources?  XtAppPending returns
> non-zero when these exist but XtAppNextEvent still blocks if there are no
> X events.  If this is the case, you might try

Yes, I am using timers.

>     while (XtAppPending(context) & XtIMXEvent) {
>         ...

Okay, but if I do this, doesn't that mean that none of my timer events
will get processed?

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