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From: malbert@jeeves.shearson.com (Marc Albert)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Event Loops
Message-ID: <MALBERT.91Apr15105521@jeeves.shearson.com>
Date: 15 Apr 91 14:55:20 GMT
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|> I have an application that has multiple top level windows.  The event
|> loop looks something like this:
|> 	for (;;) {
|> 		if (XtAppPending(WindowOne))
|> 			XtDispatch();
|> 		if (XtAppPending(WindowTwo))
|> 			XtDispatch();
|> 	}
|> 
|> This method works fine. 

>Are you sure this works?  XtAppPending takes an application context,
>not a window, as its argument.  The application context can contain any
>number of displays, with each display containing any number of
>top-level windows.

I'm sorry if my example was unclear.  This was supposed to be
just a sample of the logic - not actual code.  You are correct,
that application does use multiple application contexts.

Marc.



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