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From: toml@marvin.Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Can you XMapWindow and XSetInputFocus ?
Message-ID: <TOML.91May30152355@marvin.Solbourne.COM>
Date: 30 May 91 20:23:55 GMT
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Sender: toml@solbourne.com (Tom LaStrange)
Organization: Solbourne Computer, Inc.
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Oh combined wisdom of the net, please solve my problem...

For the sake of simplicity, let's assume that the window manager will NOT
iconify my window when it is mapped.

Say I have a top-level window that has the input focus.  I want to map
another top-level window and set input focus to it.  I want to do something 
like this:

	MapTheWindow(window);
	SetTheFocus(window);


I do not want MapTheWindow to return until I can set input focus to the
window, it and all of it's ancestors must be mapped.  MapTheWindow cannot
simply wait for a MapNotify event because the window manager may map the
client window and then sometime later map its frame.  In between, input focus
cannot be set because an ancestor of the window is unmapped.  MapTheWindow
cannot wait for a VisibilityNotify event because the window may be
completely obscured.  It cannot wait for Expose events for the same reason.

What I really want is an event that tracks the state of the map_state member
of the XWindowAttributes structure.

I hope I've overlooked something.  Can you solve this problem?

Thanks,
(I kid you not)Tom LaStrange        toml@Solbourne.COM