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From: harper@applga.aa.cad.slb.com (Brett E. Harper)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Help for modal windows needed
Message-ID: <1990Oct30.182737.1219@applga.aa.cad.slb.com>
Date: 30 Oct 90 18:27:37 GMT
Sender: harper@applga.aa.cad.slb.com (Brett E. Harper)
Organization: Schlumberger CAD/CAM ; Ann Arbor, MI
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hello,

  Does anyone know of a good way to acheive modal input focus under motif?
What I want is when a modal dialog box comes up, that it should lock out input
to any other windows within the application.  I have been trying to use the
APPLICATION_MODAL feature of the dialog widget, but I have just been recently
told that our implementation of Motif does not consider the entire application
tree as being locked out.  I guess the only window that is locked out is the
primary window (the parent) of the window that is now application modal.  

  This does not help me any I would like to see lock out on every window within
the application.  Suppose I had a hierarchry like this:


             TopLevel
           |          |
     InfoWindow    MainWindow
     |  |...|
     P1 P2  Pn

  where, Px is a DialogShell that can either be modeless or modal.
  note, only one modal DialogShell will be on screen at any one time.

  Say P1 is modal, then I would like to lock out input to P2,...,Pn,InfoWindow,
   and MainWindow until P1 is undisplayed.


 Does anyone know of a way to do this?  

 The version of MOTIF that I am using is 1.0 implemented on a HP9000s400


 I would really appreciate any help that I can get on this subject.
 
 Thanks,

 Brett Harper

 harper@aaaca1.SINet.SLB.COM