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@@ -476,6 +476,12 @@ Mixer objects have the following methods:
    Returns a tuple of (file descriptor, eventmask) that can be used to
    wait for changes on the mixer with *select.poll*.
 
+.. method:: Mixer.handleevents()
+
+   Acknowledge events on the *polldescriptors* file descriptors
+   to prevent subsequent polls from returning the same events again.
+   Returns the number of events that were acknowledged.
+
 **A rant on the ALSA Mixer API**
 
 The ALSA mixer API is extremely complicated - and hardly documented at all.

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@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
  <a href="#A"><strong>A</strong></a>
  | <a href="#C"><strong>C</strong></a>
  | <a href="#G"><strong>G</strong></a>
+ | <a href="#H"><strong>H</strong></a>
  | <a href="#M"><strong>M</strong></a>
  | <a href="#P"><strong>P</strong></a>
  | <a href="#R"><strong>R</strong></a>
@@ -120,6 +121,16 @@
   </dl></td>
 </tr></table>
 
+<h2 id="H">H</h2>
+<table style="width: 100%" class="indextable genindextable"><tr>
+  <td style="width: 33%" valign="top"><dl>
+      
+  <dt><a href="libalsaaudio.html#alsaaudio.Mixer.handleevents">handleevents() (alsaaudio.Mixer method)</a>
+  </dt>
+
+  </dl></td>
+</tr></table>
+
 <h2 id="M">M</h2>
 <table style="width: 100%" class="indextable genindextable"><tr>
   <td style="width: 33%" valign="top"><dl>
@@ -286,8 +297,8 @@
       </ul>
     </div>
     <div class="footer">
-        &copy; Copyright 2008-2009, Casper Wilstrup, Lars Immisch.
+        &copy; Copyright 2008-20017, Casper Wilstrup, Lars Immisch.
-      Last updated on May 16, 2015.
+      Last updated on Feb 22, 2017.
       Created using <a href="http://sphinx-doc.org/">Sphinx</a> 1.2.3.
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@@ -140,8 +140,8 @@
       </ul>
     </div>
     <div class="footer">
-        &copy; Copyright 2008-2009, Casper Wilstrup, Lars Immisch.
+        &copy; Copyright 2008-20017, Casper Wilstrup, Lars Immisch.
-      Last updated on May 16, 2015.
+      Last updated on Feb 22, 2017.
       Created using <a href="http://sphinx-doc.org/">Sphinx</a> 1.2.3.
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libalsaaudio.html

@@ -586,6 +586,14 @@ changed. The default is to set the capture flag for all channels.</p>
 wait for changes on the mixer with <em>select.poll</em>.</p>
 </dd></dl>
 
+<dl class="method">
+<dt id="alsaaudio.Mixer.handleevents">
+<tt class="descclassname">Mixer.</tt><tt class="descname">handleevents</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#alsaaudio.Mixer.handleevents" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd><p>Acknowledge events on the <em>polldescriptors</em> file descriptors
+to prevent subsequent polls from returning the same events again.
+Returns the number of events that were acknowledged.</p>
+</dd></dl>
+
 <p><strong>A rant on the ALSA Mixer API</strong></p>
 <p>The ALSA mixer API is extremely complicated - and hardly documented at all.
 <a class="reference internal" href="#module-alsaaudio" title="alsaaudio (Linux)"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">alsaaudio</span></tt></a> implements a much simplified way to access this API. In
@@ -776,8 +784,8 @@ Channel 1 volume: 61%
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+        &copy; Copyright 2008-20017, Casper Wilstrup, Lars Immisch.
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@@ -105,8 +105,8 @@
       </ul>
     </div>
     <div class="footer">
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+        &copy; Copyright 2008-20017, Casper Wilstrup, Lars Immisch.
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+      Last updated on Feb 22, 2017.
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@@ -214,8 +214,8 @@ with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Ctl-C</span></tt>.</p>
       </ul>
     </div>
     <div class="footer">
-        &copy; Copyright 2008-2009, Casper Wilstrup, Lars Immisch.
+        &copy; Copyright 2008-20017, Casper Wilstrup, Lars Immisch.
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+      Last updated on Feb 22, 2017.
       Created using <a href="http://sphinx-doc.org/">Sphinx</a> 1.2.3.
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+        &copy; Copyright 2008-20017, Casper Wilstrup, Lars Immisch.
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@@ -176,8 +176,8 @@ on.</p>
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