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eventtest(6)		       Svgalib User Manual		    eventtest(6)

NAME
     eventtest - test the waitevent function of svgalib

SYNOPSIS
     eventtest

DESCRIPTION
     This  is  a  kind of an upgraded keytest(6) and mousetest(6) demo using the
     vga_waitevent(3) function.

     Use mouse to move cursor.	<1>-<9>, <0> to set the cursor size.  <Space> to
     change the cursor color. Left button  to  draw.  Right  button  or  <Q>  to
     bailout.

     The  cursor  goes	on/off every half second by usage of a timeout passed to
     vga_waitevent(3).	Every 5 seconds a string from a child process (the time)
     arrives asynchronously and is displayed by  the  frontend.  This  comes  in
     through a pipe(2) which is monitored by vga_waitevent(2).

     You  can  set  a  videomode  to use by setting the environment variable SV-
     GALIB_DEFAULT_MODE to a number (see vgatest for a list) or  a  string  like
     G0x1x2  where you replace 0 with desired x resolution, 1 with the desired y
     rez, and 2 with the desired number of colors (2, 16, 256,	32K,  64K,  16M,
     16M4). Again, only certain choices are available, see vgatest for a list.

     In case nothing is selected, G320x200x256 is choosen.

     This demo is part of svgalib and can be found in the demos/ subdirectory of
     the original svgalib distribution. However, it is not installed in the sys-
     tem  by  default,	s.t. it is unclear where you can find it if your svgalib
     was installed by some linux distribution. Even then, when you have the demo
     on your system, you probably won't have the sources s.t. it is only of lim-
     ited use for you.

     In case of any such problem, simply get an svgalib  distribution  from  the
     net. You even don't need to install it. Just make in the demos/ subdirecty.
     As  of this writing, svgalib-1.2.12.tar.gz is the latest version and can be
     retrieved by  ftp	from  sunsite.unc.edu  at  /pub/Linux/libs/graphics  and
     tsx-11.mit.edu  at /pub/linux/sources/libs which will most probably be mir-
     rored by a site close to you.

SEE ALSO
     svgalib(7), vgagl(7), libvga.config(5),  vga_waitevent(3),  threed(6),  ac-
     cel(6),  bg_test(6), forktest(6), fun(6), keytest(6), mousetest(6), scroll-
     test(6), speedtest(6),  spin(6),  testaccel(6),  testgl(6),  testlinear(6),
     vgatest(6), plane(6), wrapdemo(6)

AUTHOR
     This  manual  page  was  edited  by Michael Weller <eowmob@exp-math.uni-es-
     sen.de>. The demos as well as the vga_waitevent(3) function is due to him.

Svgalib 1.3.0			  8 April 1998			    eventtest(6)

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