Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!alice From: alice@athena.mit.edu (Timothy R Wall) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif Subject: Re: XmUpdateDisplay fails Summary: XmUpdateDisplay doesn't update display before a long process Message-ID: <1991Apr5.153900.22674@athena.mit.edu> Date: 5 Apr 91 15:39:00 GMT Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Distribution: inet Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 7 I use XmUpdateDisplay to refresh my application before starting a long load from disk and subsequent calculation. Immediately after XmUpdateDisplay I call a routine to change the cursor, which calls XFlush; I see the cursor change, but no screen update. What's wrong? thanks trw