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From: eric@eddie.MIT.EDU (Eric Van Tassell)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: How do I add an event type to X
Message-ID: <12836@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: 29 Sep 89 03:12:55 GMT
Organization: MIT EE/CS Computer Facility, Cambridge, MA
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I want to add a new event type via the XESetEventToWire and XESetWireToEvent
mechanism. Having used those two functions I would like to use XSendEvent
in response to some async data to send my new event to a client. The 
EventToWire function I wrote gets invoked but the WireToEvent one
never does. This leads me to wonder "is a mask of ~0L going to cause 
XNextEvent to see my new event?". How do I associate a mask with my new
event. There is a routine SetMaskForEvent() in the server but nobody seems
to call it (according to Sun's nm). There is also this 
#define EXTENSION_EVENT_BASE 64 in server/dix/events.c. Could this be
significant? Does anyone have an example of defining new events? How does
one associate an event with a mask? TIA.

eric-- 
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