Chapter 11: Event Handling Functions

This chapter discusses the Xlib functions you can use to:

Note

Some toolkits use their own event-handling functions and do not allow you to interchange these event-handling functions with those in Xlib. For further information, see the documentation supplied with the toolkit.

Most applications simply are event loops: they wait for an event, decide what to do with it, execute some amount of code that results in changes to the display, and then wait for the next event.

Next: Selecting Events

Christophe Tronche, ch.tronche@computer.org