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From: argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: OSF statements about OPEN LOOK
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Date: 7 Sep 90 06:39:43 GMT
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In article nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) writes:
> Application modal won't work without Mwm, system modal works fine.
Is this implementation responsible for the annoying behvior of Motif
applications where if you raise _one_ shell in the app, all of them
raise to the top.  How can you allow these windows to act independently
from one another?

> Not having pushpins means that you either let the user get annoyed
> or you create an alternative mechanism for keeping dialogs up.
In XView, pushpins in popup menus is implemented simply by creating
a similar base frame  that "looks" like the menu and then mapping it
to the screen.  The menu itself (override shell) certainly isn't stuck
up on the screen and left there...

> In Motif this is the difference between the "Ok" button (which takes
> it down) and the "Apply" button, which keeps it up.  You have both
> and the user decides which to select.  Given that XView isn't made
> with a widget set I'm not sure how easy it would be to add an extra
> button to your dialog boxes.
I don't really understand what you aer asking here, but I feel
compelled to provide some sort of response :-).  Unlike the Motif
toolkit, XView doesn't provide any pre-built dialogs -- therefore,
you don't have a situation where you "add a button".  Since you
are responsible for building all your own dialogs, if you add a
button, you do it at the time you create it.  It is certainly
possible to do it, but the analogy isn't the same; at least, it
isn't what I think you might be looking for.

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dan
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