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- From: english@alicudi.usc.edu (Joe English)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: Kills from Window Manager
- Message-ID: <l7gs5iINN2o8@alicudi.usc.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 22:44:02 GMT
- References: <1992Jul19.104259.6128@pictel.com> <1992Jul24.221634.29882@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> <1992Jul30.005006.7900@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
- Sender: english@alicudi.usc.edu (Joe English)
- Reply-To: <joe@trystero.art.com>
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- mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) writes:
- [ on WM_DELETE_WINDOW participation ]
- > To return to what
- >started all this off, given an application that has only one top-level
- >window and has no need to clean up after itself when killed (xclock
- >makes a good example), I see no reason why it should bother to mess
- >with WM_DELETE_WINDOW.
-
- Basically, so it will work well with twm. Since twm doesn't have a
- ``send WM_DELETE_WINDOW if the client supports it, otherwise
- KillClient'' function, it makes sense to support WM_DELETE_WINDOW even
- if a KillClient won't hurt you, just for the sake of twm-friendliness.
-
- Since there are so many programs out there which don't support
- WM_DELETE_WINDOW but should, twm's functionality makes sense.
- I'd much rather have my ``close window'' key fail to work
- on some applications than have it kill the client when I just
- wanted to dismiss a dialog box.
-
-
-
- --Joe English
-
- joe@trystero.art.com
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