[comp.windows.x] Event handling other than event loop - Question

saiki@asevx3.sinet.slb.COM (Yoshiyuki Saiki) (08/14/90)

        I found a set of routine called XSelectAsyncEvent and XSelectAsyncInput
        on DECwindows manual(VMS), but I could not find corresponding routine
        in the O'Reilly & Associates's Reference Manual nor other tutorials
        like Oliver Johnes'. Are they vender specific routine or standard
        (portable) Xlib ? 

        The reason why I need them is, I do not want to wait or stop execution
        after certain drawing on window, I think I need some sort of event
        dispatch mechanism other than event-loop type dispatching.

        Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

        Yoshiyuki Saiki			saiki@ase.slb.com

        S.K.K Engineering
        Fuchinobe
        Sagamihara-city
        Kanagawa Japan

klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee) (08/15/90)

In article <9008140948.AA25416.saiki@asevx3.SINet.SLB.COM@linus>,
saiki@asevx3.sinet.slb.COM (Yoshiyuki Saiki) writes:
|> 
|>         I found a set of routine called XSelectAsyncEvent and
XSelectAsyncInput
|>         on DECwindows manual(VMS)

These are only in DEC versions of Xlib.  The VMS version provides an X
interface to the VMS AST mechanism.  A UNIX version was developed for
compatibility.  You might want to try the callback functions in the X
Toolkit, which provide similar functionality.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com
uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee