Re: Modules API

Thursday, 16 March 2000

        Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)iskon.hr&gt; writes:

...
 SL Baur <steve(a)beopen.com&gt; writes:

 > May I respectfully request that the functionality of XtAppAddInput
 > be added to the XEmacs event loop?

 I think Lisp code should never have to deal with "file descriptors".
 There should be a standard way to hook into the event loop from C,
 though.

 I remember that William Perry used something like that to get the GPM
 support right.  Bill, what do you think about this? 
Having something cleaner than what I had to do for the GPM code would be
nice.  Most of the nastiness in there is because I needed to generate the
events though.  The bit dealing with the 'fake' process is actually pretty
simple.

...
 > Under Unix, we use select loops, either via Xt, or via a
home-brewed
 > version when running tty-only.  Does a similar functionality exist
 > under MS-Windows?

 I don't think so.  This kind of thing is much harder under Windows.
 Remember Jonathan Harris' talk in Tsukuba last year?  <shudder> 
That was definitely gruesome. :)

-bp

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