steve@acorn.UUCP (Steve "daffy" Hunt) (10/15/88)
While trying to improve the appearance of interactive drags, I found I wanted to enquire from the X11r2 server what its current time was; that is, ask it what timestamp it would put on an event if one should happen right now. I can't find any reference to such a call in the Xlib manuals. Maybe the facility *is* there and I'm just not looking hard enough, or maybe there is some good reason why no such call exists. Can anyone enlighten me? Steve Hunt -- ++ Steve Hunt ++ Acorn Computers, Ltd ++ daffy@acorn.uucp ++ daffy@acorn.co.uk
RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU (Robert Scheifler) (10/21/88)
Date: 14 Oct 88 23:35:30 GMT
From: mcvax!ukc!acorn!steve@uunet.uu.net (Steve "daffy" Hunt)
I found I wanted to enquire from the X11r2 server what its current
time was; that is, ask it what timestamp it would put on an event
if one should happen right now.
There is no straightforward way to do this. A backhanded way is to
select PropertyChangeMask on a window you own, change a property, and
look at the timestamp in the PropertyNotify event you get back.