I do believe that that is what we were looking for, although I will have to check some docs on it before implementing it as LockWindowUpdate for Win32 apps..
--- Mark Vojkovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
