Re: Xt Interface?

Steve Lamont (spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu)
Mon, 24 Feb 97 13:01:21 PST

To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) :

> ... My question is this, is there any
> kind of network support in the forms library? ...

Other than the the network support inherent in an Xlib application
(client/server relationship), no.

> ... Or, if not, would it be
> possible to somehow interface xforms with an xt application so that I
> could use the Xt primitive (xt_addInput) to deal with the network
> communication. Or is there a way for me to add an aditional descriptor to
> be checked for input/output to the event handler routines in xforms,
> hopefully with a callback function?

Yes. Refer to the manual for fl_add_io_callback() (section 4.5). You
hand it a descriptor and it will call your callback every time there's
any activity on it.

spl
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