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From: ssn@modulex.dk (Svend Skafte Nielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Changing the pointer in ALL windows
Message-ID: <729@modulex.dk>
Date: 1 May 91 09:56:36 GMT
References: <1991Apr28.014058.16034@engin.umich.edu>
Organization: A/S MODULEX, Copenhagen, Denmark
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theslim@engin.umich.edu (Eric Michael Slimko) writes:

>I am writing a motif application which has many top-level windows.
>I would like to have the pointer change to a watch in all those windows
>to notify the user to wait.  Unfotunately, it looks to me like you have
>to do a XDefineCursor using the window ID for EACH of the popup windows
>to get that to happen.  Is there anyway around this?  I tried using the
>toplevel widget returned from XtInitialize, but that only changes the
>pointer for that window.  

>Thanks in advance,
>Eric Slimko

   You can possibly use "XGrabPointer" on the rootwindow instead.


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