Re: XForms: Pixmaps need callbacks ?

Steve Lamont (spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu)
Mon, 11 Aug 97 10:49:28 PDT

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

> Hi,
>
> Could the :
> Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x317)!
> ...
>
> Errors be due to the fact I'm calling :
> fl_set_pixmap_file(...);
> >From a non-callback function. In other words I'm calling them at will from
> an underlying non forms related gui.

Yes, that is most likely the cause. Only one process may talk to the
X server over any one connection. If multiple processes try to get in
the act without using the multithreaded extensions in X11R6.1, the
"unexpected async reply" message is exactly what you'd expect.

spl
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