alan@cogswell.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Alan S. Mazer) (06/22/91)
I have an XView application which creates an invisible frame and panel, and then periodically fills the panel with panel items, gets input from the user, and then makes everything invisible again. The problem is that every so often the window fails to appear. Running dbx on the window shows that the window show be there (XV_SHOW is TRUE), but it simply isn't visible. The user perceives this as a hang and is forced to quit the application, losing much of the work they have done to that point. This tends to happen in one particular scenario when the window is used twice in succession to get two sets of related parameters and is made invisible in between. Is there a known bug with windows not appearing when they should? Could making a window invisible (XV_SHOW FALSE) and then visible again quickly thereafter be a problem? -- -- Alan # Mountain Dew and doughnuts... ..!ames!elroy!alan # because breakfast is the most important meal alan@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov # of the day.