[Xcb] a reply freeze

Vincent Torri Vincent.Torri at iecn.u-nancy.fr
Wed Jun 15 02:05:29 PDT 2005


>
> Why do you want that? Can't you just wait to find out whether an event
> is available until you're actually ready to process that event?

Ecore needs that. As ecore is almost all the Xlib stuff... Ecore X is
buffering all the events. They are then registered and executed in the
ecore main loop.

Well, I think that I'll need to ask raster what i could do.

>
> XCB doesn't currently have what you've asked for, and I really like it
> that way. I'm willing to be convinced that you need it, but you'll have
> to demonstrate that you can't implement a reasonable program without
> this new feature.

Well, ecore_xcb needs a deeper rewrite than I thought :)

> Obviously we won't do anything just because Xlib does it. :-)

Of course :)

Vincent


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