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- Subject: Re: A question on ST/V
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.081806.1609@uni2a.unige.ch>
- From: dugerdil@uni2a.unige.ch
- Date: 27 Jan 93 08:18:06 +0200
- References: <1k3g7rINN64e@shelley.u.washington.edu>
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- In article <1k3g7rINN64e@shelley.u.washington.edu>, yjkim@stein.u.washington.edu (Yong Kim) writes:
- > Dear experienced users of ST/V,
- >
- > I am writing a user interface where one application window (W1) opens
- > up another window (W2). My question is how I can suspend W1 window
- > until W2 is closed. I.e. The resumption of W1 is contingent on
- > the (normal or abnormal) termination of W2. I tried to use
- > Semaphore to no avail. Thanks for your expertise on this (silly?)
- > question.
- >
- >
- > --
- > Yong J. Kim yjkim@milton.u.washington.edu
- > Department of Management Science
- > School of Business Administration
- > University of Washington
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- Why don't you declare W2 as modal ? If W2 is modal then you will not be able
- to manipulate W1 until W2 is closed. That might, I guess, solve your problem.
- To have a modal Window, declare it as a subclass of WindowDialog.
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