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- From: fineman@tatertot.arc.nasa.gov (Charles Fineman)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
- Subject: Problems with Modality
- Message-ID: <FINEMAN.93Jan26120305@tatertot.arc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:03:05 GMT
- Sender: usenet@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Will Edgington, wedgingt@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov)
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- Organization: NASA/ARC Information Sciences Division
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- I'm having a bear of a time getting modal dialogs to work correctly
- for me (or at least working in way the expect them to work given my
- interpretation of the literature.)
-
- Here's an example... I have a main window, a help dialog for that main
- window, a file selection dialog, and another dialog. The later two
- dialogs are children of the main window. I made the file selection
- dialog primary application modal and the other dialogs modeless. Now,
- the file selection dialog is a child of the main window so when I
- request help, it pops up the help dialog for the main window like it
- should have.
-
- The problem is that I can't interact with the help window. I can still
- interact with the "other" dialog though. The help dialog won't accept
- any events until I close the file selection dialog. Now, my
- interpretation of the literature is that PRIMARY_APPLICATION_MODAL is
- supposed to disallow interaction with immediate ancestors and that is
- all. This is not the case though!
-
- Is this a bug or am I missing some obtuse semantic idiosyncrisy of
- Motif?
-
- Charlie
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