Well in the case that I am debugging, in Win9x it is used to lock screen and prevent anything from updating it, for the purpose of dividing it into tiles and scrambling them.. In Linux it would be used to do the same to the root window.
Check out http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=52 for more info on the problem.. --- Mark Vojkovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Dustin Navea wrote: > > > I'm not sure if this should be directed at you guys or the developers of > x11 > > itself, but I was just wondering if you knew if there is a list of API's > > available in X11/Xfree, and if so, where it can be found.. > > > > The reason I ask is because I am a contributing developer to wine and was > > trying to find out if there is a way to implement the win32 API > > LockWindowUpdate, which locks a window and keeps it from updating to the > > screen until it is unlocked.. > > I don't believe there is equivalent functionality in the X-Window > system. A client can grab the server and lock everyone out but itself, > but there's no way to lock a single drawable. > > For what is that win32 function used. > > > Mark. > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 ===== -- Dustin Navea Minor Contributor, winehq.com Buzilla Janitor, bugs.winehq.com Network Admin, irc.blynk.net (down) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
