How can I obtain the type of an object by its identifier ?

[Adam Jackson]

On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 16:24 +0500, Alexei Babich wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> How can I obtain the type of an object by its identifier (XID)? E.g.,
> window, picture, etc.

From the client side?  You don't.  You could infer it by doing a bunch
of GetWindowAttributes or similar and inspecting error codes, I suppose.

I'm curious why you need to do this though.

- ajax
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