[Xcb] knowing when the X server will send the reply

Vincent Torri vtorri at univ-evry.fr
Sun Jan 6 14:12:54 PST 2008



On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Vincent Torri wrote:

>
>>> is it possible to know when the X server will send a reply ?
>> 
>> No -- applications request to receive events via the EventMask, but
>> that's only picked up on after the event has been sent, obviously.
>
> hmm, i found that :
>
> http://xcb.freedesktop.org/ProtocolExtensionApi/#index5h2
>
> it seems that it's useful only for extensions, but can it be used for the 
> core protocol too ?

No ideas if it's safe to use that xcb_poll_for_reply function ?

Vincent


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