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XSendEvent(X3xlib)
XSendEvent --
send events and pointer motion history structure
Synopsis
Status XSendEvent(display, w, propagate, event_mask, event_send)
Display *display;
Window w;
Bool propagate;
long event_mask;
XEvent *event_send;
unsigned long XDisplayMotionBufferSize(display)
Display *display;
XTimeCoord *XGetMotionEvents(display, w, start, stop, nevents_return)
Display *display;
Window w;
Time start, stop;
int *nevents_return;
Arguments
display-
Specifies the connection to the X server.
event_mask-
Specifies the event mask.
event_send-
Specifies the event that is to be sent.
nevents_return-
Returns the number of events from the motion history buffer.
propagate-
Specifies a Boolean value.
start
stop-
Specify the time interval in which the events are returned
from the motion history buffer.
You can pass a timestamp or CurrentTime.
w-
Specifies the window the window the event is to be sent to,
PointerWindow, or InputFocus.
Description
The XSendEvent function identifies the destination window,
determines which clients should receive the specified events,
and ignores any active grabs.
This function requires you to pass an event mask.
For a discussion of the valid event mask names,
see section 10.3 of Xlib - C Language X Interface.
This function uses the w argument to
identify the destination window as follows:
-
If w is PointerWindow,
the destination window is the window that contains the pointer.
-
If w is InputFocus
and if the focus window contains the pointer,
the destination window is the window that contains the pointer;
otherwise, the destination window is the focus window.
To determine which clients should receive the specified events,
XSendEvent uses the propagate argument as follows:
-
If event_mask is the empty set,
the event is sent to the client that created the destination window.
If that client no longer exists, no event is sent.
-
If propagate is False, the event is
sent to every client selecting on destination any of the
event types in the event_mask argument.
-
If propagate is True and no clients have
selected on destination any of the event types in event-mask,
the destination is replaced with the closest ancestor of
destination for which some client has selected a type in
event-mask and for which no intervening window has that
type in its do-not-propagate-mask.
If no such window exists or if the window is
an ancestor of the focus window and InputFocus
was originally specified as the destination,
the event is not sent to any clients.
Otherwise, the event is reported to every client selecting on the final
destination any of the types specified in event_mask.
The event in the XEvent structure must be one of the
core events or one of the events defined by an extension (or a
``BadValue'' error results) so that the X server can
correctly byte-swap the contents as necessary.
The contents of the event are otherwise unaltered and unchecked
by the X server except to force send_event to
True
in the forwarded event and to set the serial number in the event correctly;
therefore these fields
and the display field are ignored by
XSendEvent.
XSendEvent returns zero if the conversion to
wire protocol format failed and returns nonzero otherwise.
XSendEvent can generate ``BadValue''
and ``BadWindow'' errors.
The server may retain the recent history of the pointer motion
and do so to a finer granularity than is reported by
MotionNotify events.
The XGetMotionEvents function makes this history available.
The XGetMotionEvents function returns all events
in the motion history buffer that fall between the
specified start and stop times, inclusive, and that have
coordinates that lie within the specified window (including
its borders) at its present placement.
If the server does not support motion history,
if the start time is later than the stop time,
or if the start time is in the future,
no events are returned; XGetMotionEvents
returns NULL.
If the stop time is in the future, it is equivalent to specifying
CurrentTime.
XGetMotionEvents can generate a ``BadWindow'' error.
Structures
The XTimeCoord structure contains:
typedef struct {
Time time;
short x, y;
} XTimeCoord;
The time
member is set to the time, in milliseconds.
The x
and y
members are set to the
coordinates of the pointer and are reported relative
to the origin of the specified window.
Diagnostics
``BadValue''-
Some numeric value falls outside the range of values accepted by the request.
Unless a specific range is specified for an argument,
the full range defined by the argument's type is accepted.
Any argument defined as a set of alternatives can generate this error.
``BadWindow''-
A value for a Window argument does not name a defined Window.
References
XAnyEvent(X3xlib),
XIfEvent(X3xlib),
XNextEvent(X3xlib),
XPutBackEvent(X3xlib)
Xlib - C Language X Interface
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