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From: hg1915@milton.u.washington.edu (Helen Gottschalk)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: solution to the slow dialog problem on SCO Motif 1.0
Keywords: Slow dialog, TranientShellWidget
Message-ID: <17488@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 91 21:50:43 GMT
Organization: Space Labs Inc.
Lines: 37


#Does anyone know, why is it soooo slow to put widgets into BulletinBoardDialog 
#or anything derived from it.
#For example, try:
#		dialog = XmCreateFormDialog(parent, "dialog", NULL, NULL);
#
#		toggleButton = (Widget) XtCreateWidget("toggleButton", 
#         	xmToggleButtonWidgetClass, dialog, NULL, NULL);
#		label = (Widget) XtCreateWidget("label", 
#					xmLabelWidgetClass, dialog, NULL, NULL);
#                        .
#                        .
#                        .
#		someOther = (Widget) XtCreateWidget("someOther", 
#					xmSomeOtherWidgetClass, dialog, NULL, NULL);
#
#Changing XmCreateFormDiaog to XmCreateForm speeds thing up by at least a 
#factor of 10. We are using ISC UNIX System V.3.2.2.2, ISC X11.3, ISC Motif 1.0.

We found a beautiful solution to the "slow Dialogs" problem.
Here is the code:

   	XtSetArg(args[0], XmNmwmInputMode, 1);
   	popupShell = XtCreateWidget("Config", transientShellWidgetClass,
 			 	  ShellParent, args, 1);
  	someForm = XtCreateManagedWidget("SomeForm", xmFormWidgetClass,
                                  popupShell, NULL, NULL);
  	XtPopup(popupShell, XtGrabExclusive);

This creates an equivalent of XmFormDialog, but it is much faster to put widgets
into it.
Thank you all that tried to help with the problem.
Tania.
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