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From: klee@gilroy.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: 'hiding' a widget AND constraining a widget.
Keywords: X Xt widget
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Date: 1 Sep 89 21:30:18 GMT
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In article <297@oscsuna.osc.edu>, spencer@heinlein.osc.edu (Stephen Spencer) writes:
> 1.  Is there a way that I can 'turn a widget off'; set some flag so that it
>     does not get drawn? 

XtUnmapWidget does what you want directly.  There are also indirect
methods such as the "mapped when managed" resource.
> 
> 2.  I have a popup window, a dialog box really, which I do not want the user
>     to be able to move while it is popped up. 

I take it you mean moving the window with a window manager.  There are
2 ways to do this.  The easy way is to create your popup in an override
shell.  An alternative, which may be more appropriate to some
applications, is to create the popup in a transient shell, then give
your window manager special instructions (this is window manager
dependent) for handling transient windows.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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