process-wait-for-event

process-wait-for-event Function

Summary

Waits for an event in a "windowing friendly" way.

Package

Signature

process-wait-for-event &key wait-reason wait-function process-other-messages-p no-hang-p stop-at-user-operation-p => event

Arguments

`wait-reason`⇩	A string or `nil`.
`wait-function`⇩	A function designator.
`process-other-messages-p`⇩
	A generalized boolean.
`no-hang-p`⇩	A generalized boolean.
`stop-at-user-operation-p`⇩
	A generalized boolean.

Values

event⇩

An event or nil.

Description

The function process-wait-for-event calls mailbox-wait-for-event on the mailbox of the current process, after ensuring that the current process has a mailbox.

See mailbox-wait-for-event for details of wait-reason, wait-function, process-other-messages-p, no-hang-p, stop-at-user-operation-p and event.