README (1470B)
1 I have edited this code to work on modern compilers. 2 3 Russ Cox 4 5 --- 6 7 There are times during debugging when it would be real useful to be able to 8 print the fields of an event in a human readable form. Too many times I found 9 myself scrounging around in section 8 of the Xlib manual looking for the valid 10 fields for the events I wanted to see, then adding printf's to display the 11 numeric values of the fields, and then scanning through X.h trying to decode 12 the cryptic detail and state fields. After playing with xev, I decided to 13 write a couple of standard functions that I could keep in a library and call 14 on whenever I needed a little debugging verbosity. The first function, 15 GetType(), is useful for returning the string representation of the type of 16 an event. The second function, ShowEvent(), is used to display all the fields 17 of an event in a readable format. The functions are not complicated, in fact, 18 they are mind-numbingly boring - but that's just the point nobody wants to 19 spend the time writing functions like this, they just want to have them when 20 they need them. 21 22 A simple, sample program is included which does little else but to demonstrate 23 the use of these two functions. These functions have saved me many an hour 24 during debugging and I hope you find some benefit to these. If you have any 25 comments, suggestions, improvements, or if you find any blithering errors you 26 can get it touch with me at the following location: 27 28 ken@richsun.UUCP