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From: cathy@cged.co.uk (Cathy Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Modal Dialog widget: assistance requested
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.181916.1624@cged.co.uk>
Date: 30 Jan 91 18:19:16 GMT
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Organization: Computer General Electronic Design, Bath, U.K.
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woodruff@addvax.llnl.gov (Woodruff, John P) writes:

>My goal: in a program where there are multiple application shells created
>by XtAppCreateShell, I want to pop up a dialog in one of these which
>demands user response (locking out other buttons until the modal dialog
>is satisfied) without affecting the other App Shells.

>So I try to create such a widget:
>  XtSetArg (args[n], XmNdialogStyle, XmDIALOG_APPLICATION_MODAL);  n++;
>  modal = XmCreateMessageDialog (parent, "ShouldBeModal", args, n);

I don't know which version of Motif you're using, but in version 1.1,
there is a value XmDIALOG_FULL_APPLICATION_MODAL.  I've just tried
this and it seems to do the trick - ie halts the application until the
message box is responded to.


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