[Xevie] Re: Invitation to a discussion about an External Event Manager

[Jim Gettys]

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                      - Jim


On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 08:29 -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> Around 8 o'clock on Sep 13, Deron Johnson wrote:
> 
> > But doesn't normal X11 event distribution work upwards?
> 
> It does both -- top down for grabbed events, bottom up for non-grabbed
> events.  So, doing the redirection top-down can be integrated into the 
> grab path.  In fact, it's a lot like a grab, except that the normal event 
> generation for grab/ungrab don't occur, and the addition of event 
> re-insertion.
> 
> -keith
> 
>