[comp.windows.open-look] Is there an equivalent to the OL _OL_WIN_BUSY in Motif?

tracy@goshawk.Unify.Com (10/25/90)

Hello,

This is a question along the lines of: 

	Open Look has a particular feature that I am using, 
	and I would like to find an equivalent feature or method 
	in Motif (or in Xt!).

The Open Look feature that I am using is the _OL_WIN_BUSY_ property 
that a client may set on a window.  When this property is set on a 
window, the Open Look window manager assumes that that window is busy, 
grays out the window header and traps all keyboard and mouse input to 
the window.  The window will beep in response to any input.  (This is 
detailed on p74, Open Look Intrinsics Toolkit Widget Set Programmers 
Guide, version printed 6/11/90.)


Different ideas I have considered using in Motif are: setting 
XtNsensitive to FALSE on a parent widget inside a particular window, 
and/or not accepting Focus events.  But, there doesn't seem to be any
way to ask MWM or other WM's to change the appearance of the window
header to appear inactive.

Has anyone else considered this?  Or devised/found some method for
accomplishing this?

thanks in advance,

Tracy Wiseman

* Unify Corporation * Sacramento, CA * (916)920-9092 * tracy@unify.com *