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From: peter@polygen.uucp (Peter Ent)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: multi-window XDefineCursor
Message-ID: <545@redford.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 89 15:00:49 GMT
References: <8909051506.AA19531@godzilla.goldhill.com>
Reply-To: peter@redford.UUCP (Peter Ent)
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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In article <8909051506.AA19531@godzilla.goldhill.com> jne@goldhill.COM writes:
>
>I have a multi top-level window application (X11.R3, Xt, Athena Widgets).
>Sometimes, I want to change the cursor briefly for all of my windows in
>order to put up a "busy cursor".  Currently, I am doing it by grabbing
>the mouse.  This, of course, has the undesirable side effect of grabbing
>focus (under some window managers).  I really only want the cursor to
>be effected for my client's windows.  I know I could do this with
>XDefineCursor for each of my windows (including child windows).  Is there
>any more efficient way to do a client wide XDefineCursor?
>

I had the same problem and decided to use an InputOnly window that covered
all the child windows, setting the InputOnly window's cursor attribute to
the XC_watch cursor. This seems extremely quick and if what the X folks
say is true about InputOnly windows, is quite efficent, too.

Pete Ent
Polygen Corp
617-890-2888