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From: chapman@lll-lcc.UUCP (Carol Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,ba.windows.x
Subject: popup window pops down too slowly
Keywords: X11R3, Xt, Athena, debug mode speeds it up!
Message-ID: <2503@lll-lcc.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 89 01:30:04 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Livermore National Laboratory
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I have a popup window which asks a user to enter some information and
then click on either an Ok or a Cancel button, both buttons being
located in that same popup window.  I can run my program in a
debugging mode which prints a lot of debugging statements, or I can
run without it.  I've noticed that when I run in the debug mode, the
popup window vanishes pretty quickly after the user clicks on the Ok
or Cancel button.  However, if I am not in that debugging mode, the
popup window can remain on the screen for a *LONG* time before it
finally vanishes.  Can anyone tell me what is causing this, and how to
eliminate the slow vanishing act?

Thanks,
carol chapman

P.S.  The basic popup/popdown routine looks like this:
.
.
XtPopup(popup_shell, XtGrabExclusive);
popup_state = WAITING;
while (popup_state == WAITING)  {
  XtAppNextEvent(app_context, &event);
  XtDispatchEvent(&event);
} 
XtPopdown(popup_shell);
.
.
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