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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 13:53:31 -0600
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From: "Randall C. O'Reilly" <oreilly@grey.colorado.edu>
To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com
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	(oreilly@grey.colorado.edu)
Subject: Re: gui+console events: select for GetMessage?
Reply-to: oreilly@psych.colorado.edu
References:  <200007120454.WAA10366@grey.colorado.edu>

Ok, I answered my own question -- looks like you can get an 
fd =open("/dev/windows") and then use that for select.

"Randall C. O'Reilly" <oreilly@grey.colorado.edu> writes:
> Does anyone know if there is a way to use select() to wait for Win32
> GUI events that are read by GetMessage, while also waiting for stdin
> activity?  I have an application that in unix uses select() on the fd
> for the X display, so you can either use the console (xterm) interface
> or the X interface, at the same time.  I would like to use something
> like this same trick in windows, but haven't figured anything out yet.
> 
> I would like to avoid having to rewrite everything for a graphical
> console window (which would operate under the GetMessage event loop),
> unless of course there is something already written that is very easy
> to create and it basically acts just like the regular console window,
> including supporting readline (which I use).  It looked like the gdb
> in cygwin has something like that, so if anyone knows about how that
> works, I'd appreciate any pointers (I know, use the source..)  Thanks,

				- Randy

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