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From: nazgul@alfalfa.com
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Subject: Re: Need help with Motif application running under olwm
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Date: 9 Jun 91 01:07:57 GMT
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> For olwm, setting WM_TRANSIENT_FOR doesn't produce the desired effect.
> However, for Open Look applications the dialogs are correctly removed,
I believe this is supposed to be fixed in OW3.0.  In the meantime I
just made my dialogs all watch for iconization events on the main
window and go away when it did.

> 2) In my application there is a standard Motif radio box with two
> standard toggle buttons.  When running under olwm (and as far as I can
> tell, *only* when running under olwm), the first time you click on a
> toggle its internal state is correctly toggled, but its appearance is
> not.  Thus, you are left with what appears to be two radio buttons,
Yep.  God awful pain.  And it doesn`t happen if you programmatically
change the state, only if you do it with the mouse.  (Keyboard works
fine too).  You'll also find that OLWM often sends events to the
wrong buttons and and windows when you click, and that save under
does not work properly and often leaves garbage on the screen.

When I asked about these things on the net everyone pretty 
consitently said "Why on earth are you using Sun's software?".
Which would be pretty amusing, if it weren't for the fact that
our customers aren't quite so resourceful.


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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.