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From: argv@Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: "grabbing the screen"
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Date: 29 Oct 90 01:59:51 GMT
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I'd like to grab the screen much in the same way that Motif does
so that I don't step on its toes if it decides to grab the screen
too.  I am hesitant to just implement an XtGrabPointer() function
(despite a recent message I posted recommending its use) because
it just occured to me that if, in the process, Motif wants to do
a grab as well (an error dialog comes with with a system-modal
dialog), it should be successful.  Perhaps by mimicing the way
it does the grab, I might be able to figure out a way that is more
compatible with Motif.  But I just rummaged thru the source and
can find no use of XtGrabPointer other than in menus and the "tracking"
functions.

So, the roundabout question is: just how does the Motif toolkit
implement its application- and system-modal dialog pointer grabs?

--dan