Did we change PropertyNotify in the past ?

Jay Cotton Jay.Cotton at Sun.COM
Thu Oct 28 09:15:04 PDT 2004


Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 11:04 -0700, Jay Cotton wrote:
> 
>>Owen Taylor wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 15:56 -0700, Jay Cotton wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi:
>>>>
>>>>I'm working on an issue with PropertyNotify.
>>>>
>>>>In the X Protocol Reference Manual page 231.
>>>>
>>>>	PropertyNotify event.
>>>>
>>>>	<in part>
>>>>
>>>>	This event is reported to clients selecting PropertyChange on the window
>>>>	and is generated with state NewValue ....  etc.
>>>>
>>>>I don't see how we ever turn this off.  There is no code that would exclude
>>>>this notice, and I don't see where we turn it on, or filter the event.
>>>>
>>>>Did I miss something in the X11R5 to X11R6 transition ?
>>>
>>>
>>>I'm a little confused by this question. Clearly:
>>>
>>> - Apps don't get PropertyNotify events for windows they haven't 
>>>   selected for PropertyChangeMask on.
>>
>>When is this mask asserted?  At window create or via protocol request?
> 
> 
> I have more experience using PropertyChangeMask with the 'SelectInput'
> protocol request, but I'd be pretty much entirely shocked if it didn't
> work identically when you passed it in the event_mask for the 
> 'CreateWindow' request as well.

o.k.  That make sense.  I have xscope data that does not show
a request specifically setting the bit.  So, ...  Must be on
CreateWindow.  ...

Thanks

JC

> 
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> 						Owen
> 
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