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From: bonnett@seismo.CSS.GOV (H. David Bonnett)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Help on Context
Keywords: Hidden Gems
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Date: 9 Jan 91 14:22:06 GMT
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In article <12334.663393239@hplnpm.hpl.hp.com>, mayer@HPLNPM.HPL.HP.COM (Niels P. Mayer) writes:
|> From: tbray@watsol.waterloo.edu (Tim Bray)
|> > wtm%gr.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Thomas McCollough) writes:
|> > >I am interested in implementing Help on Context 
|> Another alternative, if you're using 1.1, is the following:
|> 
|> |           Widget XmTrackingLocate (widget, cursor, confine_to)
|> |                Widget    widget;
|> |                Cursor    cursor;
|> |                Boolean   confine_to;
|> | ...
|> |          XmTrackingLocate provides a modal interface for selection of
|> |           a component.  It is intended to support context help.  The
|> |           function grabs the pointer and returns the widget in which a
|> |           button press occurs.
|> | ...
|> 

Thank you Niels for pointing out the solution to a problem that myself
and others (Kee, Ana Swenson etc) have been looking for.  NO THANK YOU
to OSF for not mentioning this anywhere in the Motif Programmer's Guide
(to stupid little trivia without value....) 
As others have said: This thing (Prog Guide) SUCKS THE BIG ONE. [no ;-) ]


Just a little steam being blown off..

-dave bonnett;Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA
      bonnett@seismo.css.gov-