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Subject: Re: Support for on-screen keyboard
From: Vidar Hokstad
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 13:56:51 +0200 (MET DST)

On Sun, 16 May 1999, Alex Holden wrote:

> I suppose that would work. I think I see what Warner was saying now
> though, why not have a special value for the Window ID in the call to
> inject key events into a specific window, which tells it to use the last
> clicked window? That way you only need one call, and the operation is
> atomic, ie. the server will never serve any other clients between checking
> which was the last clicked window and sending a key event to it.

It's possible, but it would require the server to handle the window
containing the on-screen keyboard as a special case, to avoid having the
events being sent back to the keyboard.

Regards,
Vidar



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