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From: ramabads@cs.rpi.edu (Shiva )
Subject: Re: Multiple 
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Date: 21 Mar 91 21:35:08 GMT
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In article <R1==6%{@rpi.edu>, I write:

[Tons of Explanations deleted]

|> This essentially involves, ignoring all events, till a specific event is 
|> recieved ( in this case, it would be a Button1PressEvent on my Canvas Widget. )
|> 
|> AND FINALLY THE QUESTION :
|> 
|> 	IS there an elegant way of doing this. I have several such buttons, 
|> and keeping global flags, and checking in every callback is not my idea of 
|> fun.
|> 
|> 


I RTFM'd for a while, and found the Xtoolkit functions 

	XtAddGrab()   &  XtRemoveGrab() to do exactly what I needed.  I should
spend more time RTM'ing before I post.

	This posting is to pre-empt numerous postings with the solution.


Thanks, again,

-shiva
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Shivkumar Ramabadran          (shiva)             ramabads@turing.cs.rpi.edu

"I once wrote a Lisp program.  It wrote back to me."
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