Interrupting a process with a pointer press

• To: York@lucid.com
• Subject: Interrupting a process with a pointer press
• From: Sigalit Yom-Tov <sigalit@quicksand.lrdc.pitt.edu>
• Date: Tue, 8 Dec 92 13:37:16 -0500
• Cc: clim@BBN.COM
• In-Reply-To: Bill York's message of Fri, 4 Dec 92 16:18:40 PST <9212050018.AA01569@oakland-hills.lucid>

>   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))

Can you explain more? Will this work for an asynchronous interrupt?

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