Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM!nsb From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Transients update. Message-ID: Date: 24 Oct 90 13:14:13 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 23-Oct-90 Transients update. Bill Cattey@athena.mit.e (1288) > Open issues: > 1. What should the interface be if im_CreatePopUp is not supported? How about having the top level object (the child of im) temporarily replaced with the object that would have been put in the transient window, with a full redraw before & after? > 2. Should there be a compile-time or run-time variable or call that > tells if the window server supports the Transient or PopUp window types. No. I think it would be really bad news, because people would end up writing code that worked on one window system and not another. I vote for having it look a little klunky but still working right where transients aren't properly supported.