On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Dustin Navea wrote:
> 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.
If the intention is for one app to lock everyone out of the
server except for itself during some critical operation, then
XGrabServer/XUngrabServer will work. Between the grab and ungrab
only requests from the Display* that called XGrabServer will be
processed.
Mark.
>
> 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.
> >
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