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From: steve@wattres.uucp (Steve Watt)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Application Modal Focus & mwm
Summary: keyboard focus, again?!?
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.094339.1683@wattres.uucp>
Date: 9 Jan 91 09:43:39 GMT
Reply-To: steve@wattres.UUCP (Steve Watt)
Organization: Steven Watt, Consultant
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  I have had several requests from various users on how to do this, but I'm
not sure it's possible...

  The scenario:  Joe Luser has the keyboard focus policy set to pointer,
and he/she runs an application (mine) that has a few modal dialog boxes.
Whenever one of the dialogs comes up, he/she has to move the pointer into
the box to answer the prompt.

  The desired semantic is more like this:  If there is one application modal
dialog up, when the pointer is in the main window, the focus is in the modal
dialog.  If there are multiple ones up, the focus is delivered as it currently
is.

  I'm not sure if there are enough properties on the application modal windows
for mwm to figure out what's going on, but it seems that this would be the
nicest (and, unfortunately, more Presentation-Manager-like) way of doing
things.

  Maybe the right answer is to use twm, since I hear it can do *everything*.
Except interact exactly right with the Motif widget set...  c'est la vie.
-- 
Steve Watt
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