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From: david@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (David E. Smyth)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XtAddTimeOut unreliability
Message-ID: <10708@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 11 Dec 90 22:42:22 GMT
References: <12099@ibism.uucp> <1990Dec6.205556.11629@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> <12106@ibism.uucp>
Reply-To: david@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (David E. Smyth)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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ibism!lcp writes:
 >kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley	) writes:
 >> ibism!lcp writes:
 >> >I am adding a time out using XtAddTimeOut.  It doesn't appear
 >> >that my time out is reliably being executed, however.  The timeout is
 >> > [...]
 >> >P.S.  I am using SunOS 4.1, X11R3, Motif 1.0.3, TeleUSE 1.1.  XtAddTimeOut
 >> 
 >> There's the problem.  R3 XtAddTimeOut has some, dare I say, well documented
 >> problems.  I've done the same thing you describe in R4 with Motif 1.1
 >> and have no problems on our Sun 4s.
 >
 >Thanks for the responses regarding my TimeOut problem.   It turns out that it 
 >will be a few months until TeleUSE is available with Motif 1.1 and X11R4.  Does
 >anyone know of any work-arounds to this problem until I am able to upgrade to
 >X11R4 and Motif 1.1.

Sure!  Use Wcl instead.  Works fine with Motif 1.1.1, and has always worked
with X11R4.

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