Problem with function GetTimeInMillis

[Alan Coopersmith]

Elmar Krieger wrote:
> Unfortunately, the current time is returned by function GetTimeInMillis, 
> and this function is private and not exported in the Xlibs for unknown 
> reasons, so my application cannot call it.

Because it's in the Xserver, on the wrong side of the protocol from the
clients, and not defined by the protocol.

> This worked well, until some time ago, someone changed Xorg's 
> GetTimeInMillis. It now reads...
>      X_GETTIMEOFDAY(&tp);

Xorg actually now uses the POSIX clock routines on many platforms.
Since the time baseline isn't defined in the protocol, the 
implementation can change, and has a couple times.

> Since I'm now screwed completely, you guys are my last hope...
> Does anyone have a clever idea what to do? Any tricky way to indirectly 
> call GetTimeInMillis and deliver the result to my application? Or any 
> more 'official' way to determine how long a mouse button has been 
> pressed so far?

Record the current time when you get the initial event for comparison?


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