upcoming xi2 and current XTest implementation

[Simon Thum]

Ooops,

forget hat mail; I didn't switch branches.

Simon Thum wrote:
> Christian Beier wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> with the merge of xi2 coming next week, I wonder what the status of
>> XTest with xi2 is. Right now, XTest still pretty much looks like XI
>> 1.x, with Device*'s instead of devive ids
>> (http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/xextproto/tree/XTest.h).
>> Looking at the upcoming libXi in Peters repo, I can see that it only
>> offers XIChangeHierarchy() to create MD's, so MPX with the new libXi
>> uses device ids _only_ instead of the old Device*'s. So faking MD
>> input via XTest wont't work for now or is there a xi2 xextproto branch
>> somewhere that I'm missing?
> No, but I'll try to get it right. libXi and libXtst use Device*. Device 
> Id's are used over the wire (because pointers lose their meaning across 
> processes), which is done transparently by libX*.
> 
> The fact that xextproto contains  a library header seems somewhat odd to 
> me, I guess it's historical.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Simon
> 
>> Cheers,
>>    Christian
>>
>>
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