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From: tbray@watsol.waterloo.edu (Tim Bray)
Subject: Re: XmText activateCallback not called in Popup
Message-ID: <1990Oct23.232243.27307@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 90 23:22:43 GMT
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In article <6099@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> mayer@hplabs.hp.com (Niels Mayer) writes:
 Motif dialogs have the special "feature" (aka bug) in which they override...
etc...
 PS: IMHO, The "dialogue" variants of Motif widgets are bad design -- If I
 want one or more widgets in a dialog shell I'll put them there myself, and
 do XtPopUp() and XtPopDown() on the dialogue-shell explicitly -- as the
 Xt-Gods had intended us to.
...more intelligent ranting...

Yes.  Yes.  Yes.  I am nowhere near smart enough to figure out all the weird
things that are going on inside Motif's popups.  Roll your own.  If you need
to trap RET and do something with it, do it yourself.  The Xt popup/down
mechanisms are simple and straightforward and work the first time.

Tim Bray, Open Text Systems