argv@Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller) (10/29/90)
I'd like to grab the screen much in the same way that Motif does so that I don't step on its toes if it decides to grab the screen too. I am hesitant to just implement an XtGrabPointer() function (despite a recent message I posted recommending its use) because it just occured to me that if, in the process, Motif wants to do a grab as well (an error dialog comes with with a system-modal dialog), it should be successful. Perhaps by mimicing the way it does the grab, I might be able to figure out a way that is more compatible with Motif. But I just rummaged thru the source and can find no use of XtGrabPointer other than in menus and the "tracking" functions. So, the roundabout question is: just how does the Motif toolkit implement its application- and system-modal dialog pointer grabs? --dan
paul@ixi.uucp (Paul Davey) (11/08/90)
In article <9010290159.AA01987@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM> argv@Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller) writes: -> So, the roundabout question is: just how does the Motif toolkit -> implement its application- and system-modal dialog pointer grabs? -> -> --dan In short it doesn't. Mwm does it. And if it's not running - it doesn't In this case your grabs aren't modal at all. I haven't looked at 1.1 yet but programmed around this at 1.0 by doing a grab for system modal functionality. -- Regards, pd@x.co.uk IXI Limited Paul Davey pd@ixi.uucp 62-74 Burleigh St. ...!uunet!ixi!pd Cambridge U.K. "These are interesting times" +44 223 462 131 CB1 1OJ
nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) (11/08/90)
> I haven't looked at 1.1 yet but programmed around this at 1.0 by doing > a grab for system modal functionality. Not in anything you ship, I hope. I can not think of one reason that would justify a system modal dialog (unless you are writing a real-time application). There's more than one application in the world and the user often does multiple things at the same time. I don't even like Mwm's exit dialog. -kee
dm@gene.com (David Mischel) (11/10/90)
I can not think of one reason that
would justify a system modal dialog ...
hmmm. i feel i must defend myself. i wrote a version of xkill -all
which pops up a system model dialog box ("do you really want to logout now?").
but other than that, i agree with kee.
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