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The following paragraphs describe CLX functions and macros used to:
A display.
Specifies the type of event placed in the queue.
Keyword-value pairs that describe the contents of an event.
If true, the event is placed at the tail of the queue; otherwise, the event is placed at the head of the queue.
Places an event of the type given by event-key into the event queue. When :append-p is true, the event is placed at the tail of the queue; otherwise, the event is placed at the head of the queue. The actual event-slots passed depend on the event type. The keyword symbols used for each event type are event slot names defined by the declare-event macro and are described in Declaring Event Types.
A display.
Discards the current event for the display. Returns nil when the event queue is empty; otherwise, returns t. This function provides extra flexibility for discarding events, but it should be used carefully; use event-cond instead, if possible. Typically, discard-current-event is called inside a handler function or a clause of an event-case form and is followed by another call to process-event, event-case, or event-cond.
Type boolean.
A display.
The number of seconds to wait for events.
Returns the number of events queued locally. If the event queue is empty, event-listen waits for an event to arrive. If timeout is non-nil and no event arrives within the specified timeout interval (given in seconds), event-listen returns nil; if timeout is nil, event-listen will not return until an event arrives.
Type (or null integer).
A display.
Forms to execute.
Executes the body in a critical region in which the executing client process has exclusive access to the event queue.
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