[Haskell-cafe] XEventPtr in Xlib?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 10:57 PM, EatsKittens
<temporalabstraction at gmail.com>wrote:

> Xlib.Event seems to define the interestingly recursive type data XEvent =
> XEvent (Ptr XEvent) and otherwise give no information about that type.
>

Anything on the far side of a Ptr is defined by C and accessed via the FFI.
In this case, you're looking for the XEvent structure defined by the C Xlib
and described in X11/X.h (constants) and X11/Xlib.h (structs; note that
there is a separate struct for each event type although they all have a
common preamble).

You may be better served by the event definitions in
http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/X11/Graphics-X11-Xlib-Extras.html which is a
Haskell, instead of FFI, interface. (I pointed to the xmonad copy of the
docs because that's what I already have loaded in a tab, but it's part of
the same X11 binding as Graphics.X11.Xlib.Event.)

I need this type to send an XEvent message to a window, is this a mistake
> or am I overlooking something in how to use it, or is the idea that the
> only way to make XEvent data is to make it in C and import it from there?
>

allocaXEvent is defined in Graphics.X11.Xlib.Event, but you need to refer
to the C Xlib definitions and use FFI marshaling to work with it (and may
need to know C type sizes and how the C compiler packs structs on your
system). There's some code in xmonad-contrib which uses that interface to
send custom events.

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