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From: hvr@kimba.Sun.COM (Heather Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: `Working dialogs' in Motif
Keywords: Motif, dialogs, synchronous window display
Message-ID: <132640@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 7 Mar 90 19:53:43 GMT
References: <1990Feb28.164742.1177@Citicorp.COM>
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Reply-To: hvr@sun.UUCP (Heather Rose)
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In article <1990Feb28.164742.1177@Citicorp.COM> pvianna@Citicorp.COM (Paul Vianna) writes:
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>Does anyone know how such a status window can be completely displayed
>*before* the application code begins? Thanks!

You might want to point the MOTIF folks at the XView implementation of
FRAME_BUSY.  In OpenLook, you can signal to your user that the application
is "working" by a frame in "busy state".  This means that the cursor for
the application becomes a stop watch, and the frame reflects the "busy state"
as defined by OpenLook.

Anyway, XView accomplishes the "working" state changes before starting the
task at hand, so the MOTIF developers may want to see how we handled this
to affect a similar result.

Regards,

Heather