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From: bpistr@ciba-geigy.ch (Joseph C Pistritto)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Finding out if you're Iconified
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Date: 19 Sep 90 11:05:29 GMT
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I need to find out if my application is iconified (either by
the user or automatically by another program), or actually
being displayed on the screen.

At the moment, I'm doing this by examining the 'map_state' of
the window associated with toplevel shell of the application.
When this goes to 'IsUnmapped', then I assume I've been iconified
and stop doing some heavy work to update the screen.  When it
returns to any other state, I start working again.

I'm interested in knowing if there is a more 'politically correct'
way of finding out whether I'm iconified.

I'm using MWM & X11R4.

Please reply directly to me, as I don't see this list regularly.
                                                -jcp-
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