// Example multiple-source-event-loop shows how to use the xevent package to // combine multiple sources in your main event loop. This is particularly // useful if your application can respond to user input from other sources. package main import ( "fmt" "log" "time" "github.com/jezek/xgb/xproto" "github.com/jezek/xgbutil" "github.com/jezek/xgbutil/ewmh" "github.com/jezek/xgbutil/xevent" "github.com/jezek/xgbutil/xprop" "github.com/jezek/xgbutil/xwindow" ) // otherSource serves as a placeholder from some other source of user input. func otherSource() chan int { c := make(chan int, 0) go func() { defer close(c) i := 1 for { c <- i i++ time.Sleep(time.Second) } }() return c } // sendClientMessages is a goroutine that sends client messages to the root // window. We then listen to them later as a demonstration of responding to // X events. (They are sent with SubstructureNotify and SubstructureRedirect // masks set. So in order to receive them, we'll have to explicitly listen // to events of that type on the root window.) func xSource(X *xgbutil.XUtil) { i := 1 for { ewmh.ClientEvent(X, X.RootWin(), "NOOP", i) i++ time.Sleep(200 * time.Millisecond) } } func main() { X, err := xgbutil.NewConn() if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } // Start generating other source events. otherChan := otherSource() // Start generating X events (by sending client messages to root window). go xSource(X) // Listen to those X events. xwindow.New(X, X.RootWin()).Listen(xproto.EventMaskSubstructureNotify) // Respond to those X events. xevent.ClientMessageFun( func(X *xgbutil.XUtil, ev xevent.ClientMessageEvent) { atmName, err := xprop.AtomName(X, ev.Type) if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } fmt.Printf("ClientMessage: %d. %s\n", ev.Data.Data32[0], atmName) }).Connect(X, X.RootWin()) // Instead of using the usual xevent.Main, we use xevent.MainPing. // It runs the main event loop inside a goroutine and returns ping // channels, which are sent benign values right before an event is // dequeued and right after that event has finished running all callbacks // associated with it, respectively. pingBefore, pingAfter, pingQuit := xevent.MainPing(X) for { select { case <-pingBefore: // Wait for the event to finish processing. <-pingAfter case otherVal := <-otherChan: fmt.Printf("Processing other event: %d\n", otherVal) case <-pingQuit: fmt.Printf("xevent loop has quit") return } } }