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From: achan@sparkle.nec.com (Amy Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Help for modal windows needed
Message-ID: <402@nec-gw.nec.com>
Date: 6 Nov 90 17:32:35 GMT
References: <1990Oct30.182737.1219@applga.aa.cad.slb.com> <9093@ncar.ucar.edu>
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In article <9093@ncar.ucar.edu> boote@bierstadt.scd.ucar.edu () writes:
>In article <1990Oct30.182737.1219@applga.aa.cad.slb.com>, harper@applga.aa.cad.slb.com (Brett E. Harper) writes:
>>   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.
>

Some dialog boxes (e.g. XmBulletinBoard, XmMessageBox) have a resource 
called XmNdialogStyle which you can set to XmDIALOG_APPLICATION_MODAL to 
lock out input to any other windows within the application.

Amy Chan
NEC America, Inc.
achan@tdd.sj.nec.com