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From: marbru@attc.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Application Modal Focus & mwm
Message-ID: <957@attc.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 91 16:24:26 GMT
References: <1991Jan9.094339.1683@wattres.uucp>
Reply-To: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Organization: Auto-trol Technology, Denver
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In article <1991Jan9.094339.1683@wattres.uucp> steve@wattres.UUCP (Steve Watt) writes:
>
>  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.
>
    One place where we had to abbandon Motif guidelines (under threats of
    our existing users) was just like this:

    When the application pops-up something (application modal or a popup menu)
    AS A RESULT OF USER ACTION ON THE APPLICATION (not when user is elsewhere)
    we WARP POINTER to the appropriate location in the popup; when the popup
    goes away we WARP the pointer BACK where it was before.

    As I have given up on being a Style Guide guru long time ago, we probably
    violate the rule "don't warp pointer". So what. I am lucky we don't strive
    for Motif compatibility - we only migrate to Motif toolkit in a hope that
    we may strive for Motif compatibility in the future (when, may be, Motif
    becomes more usefull to us).


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