quasar@krazykat.ctt.bellcore.com (Laurence R. Brothers) (12/01/90)
Drag and drop to a simple text subwindow dumps causes an X error
(Bad Cursor) in my application, regardless of font size, or any other
variable I've been able to manipulate.
To fix this, I'd like to intercept events to the text subwindow
event procedure, presumably using notify_interpose_event_func. Unfortunately,
all my attempts (which work for other kinds of windows) fail to have
any effect on events to a text subwindow. My notify function is called twice
when the window is created, and never again under any circumstances.
I find the messy editing menu extremely annoying considering the application
is trying to display text with TEXTSW_BROWSING permanently set. I don't want
users confused by erroneous menu entries, and I certainly don't want the
application to die if someone accidentally drags a text subwindow selection.
Finally, I'd like the action of making a selection in the text subwindow
to cause activity in my application. If I could just interpose on the
text subwindow event procedure, all the above problems would be solved.
Sun's hot line was no help whatsoever. Any clues?
Oh, incidentally, I'm running on a sun 4/260 running SunOs 4.1. Various other
systems have yielded the same error.
Laurence R. Brothers (quasar@bellcore.com)
Bellcore -- Computer Technology Transfer -- Knowledge-Based Systems
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