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grabs device for exclusive use
</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" summary="Function synopsis" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="funcprototype-table"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">int <b class="fsfunc">input_grab_device </b>(</code></td><td>struct input_handle * <var class="pdparam">handle</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Arguments"><a id="id3131539"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>handle</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
input handle that wants to own the device
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When a device is grabbed by an input handle all events generated by
the device are delivered only to this handle. Also events injected
by other input handles are ignored while device is grabbed.
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