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From: nick@esacs.UUCP (Nick Tsivranidis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: SLOWWWWWWW Popups
Summary: Yes, but ....
Message-ID: <1220@esacs.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 90 16:01:48 GMT
References: <1990Oct25.142436.9581@litwin.com> <13270002@hpsciz.HP.COM>
Organization: ESA C. & S. , Rimini,ITALY
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In article <13270002@hpsciz.HP.COM>, masa@hpsciz.HP.COM (Masayoshi Habu) writes:
> Creating a dialog with lots of children is a memory-intensive operation.
> There are two suggestions for slow dialog creation. One is to avoid
> creating dialogs as much as possible. This means that whenever it is
> possible to reuse a dialog, do it. You probably can create a dialog
> when your program starts up, and use just map/unmap calls. The other

	Yes, but the problem is that dialogs are (usually) modal
	boxes and the 'parent' widget is very important (if you want
	the dialog centered on the window that produced it). Since
	reparenting a widget is not a smart idea, one is stuck
	with the Create/Destroy mechanism (which as you point out
	doesn't work right).

	This is yet another indication that 'something' was not
	well designed in this X11/Xt/Xm world we live in. But,
	such is life....

						- nick -



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