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From: drk@twinkie.Rational.COM (David Kaelbling)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: DialogShell & autoUnmanage
Keywords: dialog,question
Message-ID: <drk.674180525@twinkie>
Date: 14 May 91 00:22:05 GMT
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My application often needs to popup a dialog from within a callback.
I then want to keep control in the callback until the dialog has been
answered.  I tried this:

      // Block until the dialog is answered.
      XtManageChild(child);
      while(XtIsManaged(child))
	{
	  XtAppNextEvent(app, &event);
	  XtDispatchEvent(&event);
	}

All is fine until the main window is iconified.  The dialog iconfies
also, and does my loop exits prematurely.  What additional test can I
add?  Obviously somebody knows the dialog is supposed to be managed,
because normalizing the main window restores the dialog too...

I suppose I can suppress autoUnmanage and add my own activate and
delete callbacks, but there must be a better way.  I'm running Motif
1.1.2 and MIT X11R4 on a Sun-4.

	Thanks,
	David
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