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From: giguere@csg.UWaterloo.CA (Eric Giguere)
Subject: Proper modal dialogs using Xt -- can it be done?
Message-ID: <1990Jul16.190239.7687@maytag.waterloo.edu>
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Date: Mon, 16 Jul 90 19:02:39 GMT
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This question was originally posted in the Motif newsgroup but no one's been
able to answer it for me so:

I want to create and display a modal dialog created as a widget under Motif.
That is, after I add callback routines, manage & display the widget, I want
my main program to wait (without busy-waiting!) until the widget is 
destroyed and not accept input into its main window while the dialog widget
is being displayed.  All the dialog examples I've seen so far that use the
Xt or Motif widget sets use modeless dialogs.

So, can I do this portably using X or do I have to resort to using system
calls such as the Unix signalling facility?

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Eric Giguere                                       giguere@csg.UWaterloo.CA