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From: paul@ixi.uucp (Paul Davey)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: "grabbing the screen"
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Date: 7 Nov 90 17:30:09 GMT
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In-Reply-To: argv@Eng.Sun.COM's message of 29 Oct 90 01:59:51 GMT

In article <9010290159.AA01987@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM>
 argv@Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller) writes:

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

In short it doesn't. Mwm does it. 

And if it's not running - it doesn't
In this case your grabs aren't modal at all.

I haven't looked at 1.1 yet but programmed around this at 1.0 by doing
a grab for system modal functionality.

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