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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Please use KCursor
From:       Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra () troll ! no>
Date:       1998-12-03 14:59:00
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Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>
> Why wasn't using a QTimer possible?

A QTimer works perfectly, if you make sure the event loop gets run.
Sometimes a big if.

However, alarm() is a bigger if, unless you have a separate X server
connection just for the cursor code, or unless you can guarantee that
all writes to the X connection are atomic.

I know about one programt that has adopted the former approach, none
that have adopted the latter.

--Arnt

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