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From: david@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (David E. Smyth)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: InputOnly Curiosity
Message-ID: <7037@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 9 Feb 90 17:20:23 GMT
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Reply-To: david@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (David E. Smyth)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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seth@ZURICH.AI.MIT.EDU (Seth Goldstein) writes:
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>Does anyone have a concrete example of where you'd use an InputOnly
>window?

Lay one over another window to do special input processing.

Contrived Example: Add the ability to pop-up a new kind of menu to xterm.

Hack main() to create an input only window over the existing xterm
window.  Add event handlers to catch mouse button events on that
input only window.