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From: dfc@Inference.COM (Deborah Catalano)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: raising a widget
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Date: 31 Jan 91 22:18:13 GMT
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   From: jimg@apollo.com (hit "D" now)
   Date: Thu, 31 Jan 91 11:25:44 EST 
   Sender: jimg@apollo.com

   There ought to be an answer to this, but I haven't found it.
   I have a client application that wants to notice when it is
   obscured by other windows and, under certain circumstances,
   wants to be raised to the top of the window stack. I can add
   an event handler to the toplevel shell widget and have it
   Map and Unmap itself, but making the window blink out and flash
   on again is ugly and messy.  

   What I'd really like to do is just send a request to the window 
   manager and ask it to raise my window to the top.  I'm running 
   mwm. 

   Is there a way to do that?


Yes, we had to do something similar.  Use XConfigureWindow (if using
X11R3) or XReconfigureWMWindow (if using X11R4).  Note: you have to 
use the parent of the dialog box if using the Motif Dialog convenience 
routines (e.g., XmCreateFormDialog).

Here's the code that works for me:

/* Declarations....*/

XWindowChanges *winchgs = (XWindowChanges *)malloc(sizeof(XWindowChanges));
unsigned int value_mask;


/* other code .... */
	. . .
    winchgs->stack_mode = Above;
    value_mask = CWStackMode;
#if X11R4
    XReconfigureWMWindow(display, XtWindow(XtParent(dialog_widget)), screen_num, value_mask, winchgs);
#else
    XConfigureWindow(display, XtWindow(XtParent(dialog_widget)), value_mask, winchgs);
#endif

/* end of code sample */



Good luck!

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