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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: (none)
Message-ID: <1990Dec19.163229.19076@alphalpha.com>
Date: 19 Dec 90 16:32:29 GMT
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In article <9012171804.AA29328@unislc.UUCP> ctk@unislc.UUCP (Carol Toomer-Keay) writes:
>Help!
>
>I'm developing a demo using Motif and have run into a 
>strange problem.  I need to create a form containing 2 label widgets.  
>Then I need to be able to change the background color of 
>each label in the following manner:
>
>Change background color of label 1.
>Sleep a few seconds

If you go to sleep the server is never going to get the request.
You could do a flush, but better yet (so that refresh and the like
work) keep an external state variable and set up a timeout.  Then
you'll get called every N seconds and you can then set the button
to the next state.

						-kee
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I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.