[Xcb] data sent by the client

[Vincent Torri]

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Jamey Sharp wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 08:33:57AM +0200, Vincent Torri wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> Hi Vincent!
>
> > am i supposed to rewrite the functions like
> > XKeysymToString, XLookupString, etc... myself, or they exist also in the
> > xcb API ?
>
> Ooh! I think we have a volunteer! ;-)
>
> This stuff is what I was talking about in this mail:
> 	http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xcb/2005-March/000417.html
> We need somebody to write those functions in a library built on XCB.
> Would you consider doing it?

Well, hmm, hum. If I want to finish the port of ecore.... I'll think about
it. Hopefully, you gave some docs :)

>
> > i'm always working on the xcb port of ecore, and i'm facing a problem:
> >
> > ecore uses a member of a structure of an Xlib event that i don't find in
> > the api : it's xcient.data
> >
> > It seems that this data is an arbitrary variable of length 20 bytes.
> >
> > Could someone tell me where i could get this information with xcb ?
>
> Looks like it's a bug in XCB's description of the ClientMessage event.
> I guess it needs to contain something like
> 	<list type="void" ...><value>20</value></list>.
> I'm too sleepy to fix it right now though.

I'll wait for the fix, no problem :)

Vincent