Re: [AD] Missing field in keyboard and mouse events

[Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2008-08-15, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 14 August 2008, Elias Pschernig wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 19:21 +0200, Elias Pschernig wrote:
> > > I'm also right now investigating some locking problems I get from X11
> > > with that patch. Seems with the A4 background thread using its own X11
> > > connection to do some of the setup, those were less likely to occur.
> > > Using the A4 events thread model (poll for X11 events 1000 times a
> > > second, protected by a lock, instad of just XNextEvent) makes them
> > > disappear again, but I think there will be an easy solution without
> > > reverting to that.
> >
> > Hm, messing with those X11 events was a major dejavu from a few years
> > ago for me. I kinda had remembered from back then that X11 was about to
> > get more thread safe, but seems I was wrong. 
> 
> You weren't. You just can't use libX11. Instead we have to update to XCB. 
> Which we really should..

I've only read a little on XCB.  My only concern was how widespread it
is, and how stable the API is.  Clearly it's the future though and it
will probably be installed everywhere by the time Allegro 5 is finished ;)
So I'd support a move in this direction.

Peter