[Xcb] generic events

[Barton C Massey]

Thomas can do it!
He's our man!
If he can't do it,
Someone else will have to!

Seriously, sounds like something where Thomas should take a
first cut at it, at least, if he's willing.

	Bart

In message <4664AC15.9090906 at who-t.net> you wrote:
> Thomas Hunger wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I played a little with generic events:
> > 
> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xcb/2007-February/002619.html
> > 
> > Since it does not fit into the classical <event/> structure I believe 
> > it needs a new tag, e.g.:
> > 
> > <genericevent name="y number="x" />
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> 
> Just as a warning: the integration of XGE into Xext uses a bit of 
> "magic" and I'm not sure how to build a similar functionality into xcb.
> 
> Xlib requires extensions to call XextAddDisplay. So XGE hooks into that 
> to register the callbacks for generic events. The extension offset is 
> defined there as well.
> 
> This way, an extension doesn't need to do anything and will 
> automatically get generic events.
> 
> But pure xcb programs at the moment wouldn't work, not until something 
> similar has been put into xcb. (Anybody volunteering?)
> 
> Cheers,
>    Peter
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