| I have edited this code to work on modern compilers. |
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| Russ Cox |
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| There are times during debugging when it would be real useful to be able to |
| print the fields of an event in a human readable form. Too many times I found |
| myself scrounging around in section 8 of the Xlib manual looking for the valid |
| fields for the events I wanted to see, then adding printf's to display the |
| numeric values of the fields, and then scanning through X.h trying to decode |
| the cryptic detail and state fields. After playing with xev, I decided to |
| write a couple of standard functions that I could keep in a library and call |
| on whenever I needed a little debugging verbosity. The first function, |
| GetType(), is useful for returning the string representation of the type of |
| an event. The second function, ShowEvent(), is used to display all the fields |
| of an event in a readable format. The functions are not complicated, in fact, |
| they are mind-numbingly boring - but that's just the point nobody wants to |
| spend the time writing functions like this, they just want to have them when |
| they need them. |
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| A simple, sample program is included which does little else but to demonstrate |
| the use of these two functions. These functions have saved me many an hour |
| during debugging and I hope you find some benefit to these. If you have any |
| comments, suggestions, improvements, or if you find any blithering errors you |
| can get it touch with me at the following location: |
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| ken@richsun.UUCP |
