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- From: mohan@lns598.TN.CORNELL.EDU
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: Communication between Motif apps using properties
- Message-ID: <9208131530.AA27878@lns598.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 15:30:49 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.062116.26316@tfs.com>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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- > I am writing a user interface that part of its job is to display
- > error messages received from other applications running on the same
- > machine. The other apps communicating the messages to the user
- > interface using properties/atoms. My problem is that all apps have
- > to share a widget because properties are associated with widgets.
- > I guess the most reasonable widget to use is the text widget in
- > which the errors are to be displayed. But how can the other apps
- > know the widget ID of that window?
- > --
- >
- > Meir Zaid meir@tfs.com
- > TRW Financial Systems (510) 704-3362
- > Berkeley, California Fax: (510) 845-7311
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- You can define your own property on the root window that holds the widget ID
- The other clients can than query the server for that property at startup.
- - Mohan
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