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From: ppluzhni@vivaldi.helios.nd.edu (paul pluzhnikov)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: window group
Message-ID: <1991May17.131738.1820@news.nd.edu>
Date: 17 May 91 13:17:38 GMT
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In article <1991May14.204051.19823@mprgate.mpr.ca> loo@mprgate.mpr.ca (Richard Loo) writes:
>Hi,
>
>My application requires that a collection of windows be handled as a group.
>For instance, the group of windows can be iconified or restored altogether with
>one action.  The window_group component of the XWMHints structure seems to be


One way would be to make all windows in collection 'child DialogShells' to some
TopLevel 'root' window of your application (from which they are all invoked?).

However, I don't know how it measures against 'style gide'.

Paul