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From: pickel@mcnc.org (Lisa C. Pickel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: How to Pause After XCreateWindow?
Keywords: XCreateWindow XGetWindowAttributes
Message-ID: <4188@alvin.mcnc.org>
Date: 14 Mar 89 20:17:16 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Microelectronics Center of NC; RTP, NC
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In the days of X10, I used XCreate to start a window.  This function
apparently paused while the window manager allowed to user to size the
window.  I then called XQueryWindow to get the size of the window.
Unfortunately, I cannot seem to mimic this behavior with X11.

The problem is that I call XCreateWindow, but it doesn't pause.  My
application speeds right along, eventually calling XGetWindowAttributes
BEFORE I've placed and sized the new window.  Thus, the values I get
back are quite possibly garbage since they refer to the default values
for my window.

How do I fix this?  I've tried doing XFlush-es, XSync-s, even XMapRaised.
I've tried messing with override-retry or some such thing.

My apologies for this question as I bet it's been asked before.

Lisa.
pickel@mcnc.org
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