Haskell Xlib bindings

Ross Paterson ross at soi.city.ac.uk
Sun Feb 4 18:24:52 EST 2007


Rob Hoelz <hoelz at wisc.edu> wrote:
> My question is this:  Why do the Haskell Xlib bindings have no way to
> extract the property event from an event pointer?
> 
> For example, the following functions are available:
> 
> get_KeyEvent, get_ButtonEvent, get_MotionEvent, etc.
> 
> but there's no get_PropertyEvent.
> 
> Why was this left out?  It seems pretty critical to the functionality
> of an Xlib program to someone who's been programming in C with Xlib for
> quite some time.

It wasn't left out, it just wasn't put in, like a lot of other things.
If you have a list of stuff you need, it can be added.



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