XSendEvent(3) XLIB FUNCTIONS XSendEvent(3)
NAME
XSendEvent, XDisplayMotionBufferSize, XGetMotionEvents, XTimeCoord -
send events and pointer motion history structure
SYNTAX
Status XSendEvent(Display *display, Window w, Bool propagate, long
event_mask, XEvent *event_send);
unsigned long XDisplayMotionBufferSize(Display *display);
XTimeCoord *XGetMotionEvents(Display *display, Window w, Time start,
Time stop, int *nevents_return);
ARGUMENTS
display Specifies the connection to the X server.
event_mask
Specifies the event mask.
event_send
Specifies the event that is to be sent.
nevents_return
Returns the number of events from the motion history buffer.
propagate Specifies a Boolean value.
start
stop Specify the time interval in which the events are returned
from the motion history buffer. You can pass a timestamp or
CurrentTime. PointerWindow, or InputFocus.
w Specifies the window the window the event is to be sent to.
DESCRIPTION
The XSendEvent function identifies the destination window, determines
which clients should receive the specified events, and ignores any ac-
tive grabs. This function requires you to pass an event mask. For a
discussion of the valid event mask names, see section 10.3. This func-
tion uses the w argument to identify the destination window as follows:
• If w is PointerWindow, the destination window is the window that
contains the pointer.
• If w is InputFocus and if the focus window contains the pointer,
the destination window is the window that contains the pointer;
otherwise, the destination window is the focus window.
To determine which clients should receive the specified events, XSendE-
vent uses the propagate argument as follows:
• If event_mask is the empty set, the event is sent to the client
that created the destination window. If that client no longer ex-
ists, no event is sent.
• If propagate is False, the event is sent to every client selecting
on destination any of the event types in the event_mask argument.
• If propagate is True and no clients have selected on destination
any of the event types in event-mask, the destination is replaced
with the closest ancestor of destination for which some client has
selected a type in event-mask and for which no intervening window
has that type in its do-not-propagate-mask. If no such window ex-
ists or if the window is an ancestor of the focus window and Input-
Focus was originally specified as the destination, the event is not
sent to any clients. Otherwise, the event is reported to every
client selecting on the final destination any of the types speci-
fied in event_mask.
The event in the XEvent structure must be one of the core events or one
of the events defined by an extension (or a BadValue error results) so
that the X server can correctly byte-swap the contents as necessary.
The contents of the event are otherwise unaltered and unchecked by the X
server except to force send_event to True in the forwarded event and to
set the serial number in the event correctly; therefore these fields and
the display field are ignored by XSendEvent.
XSendEvent returns zero if the conversion to wire protocol format failed
and returns nonzero otherwise. XSendEvent can generate BadValue and
BadWindow errors.
The server may retain the recent history of the pointer motion and do so
to a finer granularity than is reported by MotionNotify events. The
XGetMotionEvents function makes this history available.
The XGetMotionEvents function returns all events in the motion history
buffer that fall between the specified start and stop times, inclusive,
and that have coordinates that lie within the specified window (includ-
ing its borders) at its present placement. If the server does not sup-
port motion history, if the start time is later than the stop time, or
if the start time is in the future, no events are returned; XGetMotion-
Events returns NULL. If the stop time is in the future, it is equiva-
lent to specifying CurrentTime. XGetMotionEvents can generate a BadWin-
dow error.
STRUCTURES
The XTimeCoord structure contains:
typedef struct {
Time time;
short x, y;
} XTimeCoord;
The time member is set to the time, in milliseconds. The x and y mem-
bers are set to the coordinates of the pointer and are reported relative
to the origin of the specified window.
DIAGNOSTICS
BadValue Some numeric value falls outside the range of values accepted
by the request. Unless a specific range is specified for an
argument, the full range defined by the argument's type is ac-
cepted. Any argument defined as a set of alternatives can
generate this error.
BadWindow A value for a Window argument does not name a defined Window.
SEE ALSO
XAnyEvent(3), XIfEvent(3), XNextEvent(3), XPutBackEvent(3)
Xlib - C Language X Interface
X Version 11 libX11 1.8.12 XSendEvent(3)
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