Re: Re: XPending - XCBEventQueueLength sounds right but its gone. What else?

On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 08:01 -0700, Barton C Massey wrote:
> I guess the question we always have is "why"?  Why do you
> want to count the number of queued events, rather than just
> dequeueing them as needed?  If there's some value in knowing
> this count, we'd be willing to put some work into being able
> to tell you, but we haven't yet seen a place where it was
> useful information...

I hate to say "me too", so I'll wrap it in some verbiage about how much
I hate to say it.

If you can tell us precisely why a count matters (and which events you
want to count, which is a weird concept when some may be on the wire
when you call XPending) then we can suggest a solution that may or may
not involve changing XCB.

--Jamey