Interrupting a process with a pointer press

• To: sigalit@quicksand.lrdc.pitt.edu
• Subject: Interrupting a process with a pointer press
• From: Bill York <york%oakland-hills@lucid.com>
• Date: Fri, 4 Dec 92 16:18:40 PST
• Cc: clim@BBN.COM
• In-Reply-To: Sigalit Yom-Tov's message of Mon, 30 Nov 92 12:05:03 -0500 <9211301705.AA07309@quicksand.lrdc.pitt.edu>
• Reply-To: York@lucid.com

   Date: Mon, 30 Nov 92 12:05:03 -0500
   From: Sigalit Yom-Tov <sigalit@quicksand.lrdc.pitt.edu>

   I am trying to write an application that prints a line to the window at
   regular intervals, unless the mouse button is pressed, in which case it
   goes off and does something else. Is there an easy way to do this via
   CLIM, or do I have to dive into the world of multitasking?

There is no supported way, but the following internal function will
do the trick.  Note that you have to be running a CLIM input loop
somewhere (e.g. at least calling READ-CHAR if not the command top
level) in order for the button state transitions to be tracked.

(clim::pointer-button-state (stream-primary-pointer win))

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• Interrupting a process with a pointer press
• From: Sigalit Yom-Tov <sigalit@quicksand.lrdc.pitt.edu>

• Interrupting a process with a pointer press
• From: Sigalit Yom-Tov <sigalit@quicksand.lrdc.pitt.edu>

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