Re: Getting keyboard state.

["Timothy M. Shead" <tshead k-3d com>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> "Timothy M. Shead" <tshead k-3d com> writes: 
>
> > Rather than creating handlers and maintaining state for this, you can get the
> > information along with the pointer position from anywhere in your code:
> >
> > int x, y;
> > GdkModifierType modifiers;
> > gdk_window_get_pointer(window, &x, &y, &modifiers);
> >
> > ... the modifier keys will be OR-ed together GdkModifierType values.
>
>
> Maintaining the state is much more correct, the get_pointer() solution
> is a giant race condition.
>
> Havoc

Come again?  Are you referring to the round-trip to the X server?
Tim