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From: welling@SEURAT.PSC.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Need a way to immediately unmap a widget
Message-ID: <9012131950.AA02556@seurat.psc.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 90 19:50:19 GMT
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I have a question which arises when I am dealing with a Motif File
Selection Dialog.  When the user selects a file, I would like the
selection dialog widget to immediately disappear.  I unmanage the
widget, but because I would prefer to keep the widget intact I do
not destroy it.

The widget disappears the next time I call XtDispatchEvent, but because
I must read in the file the user has selected in the mean time, I don't
get around to dispatching the next event for a while.  (I don't use
XtAppMainLoop because I need to maintain overall control of the event
loop).  Is there anything I can do which will immediately unmap the
file dialog widget, short of destroying it?

Thanks,
-Joel Welling
 Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center