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- Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
- Path: sparky!uunet!island!coney!hue
- From: hue@island.COM (Pond Scum)
- Subject: Re: signals under xview
- Message-ID: <hue.715284521@coney>
- Sender: usenet@island.COM (The Usenet mail target)
- Organization: Island Graphics Corp.
- References: <1992Aug26.175505.835@adimail.uucp>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:08:41 GMT
- Lines: 16
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- tel@adimail.uucp (Terry Monks) writes:
- >Under SunView we were able to use the STOP key and the SIGURG signal
- ^^^^^^
- Since the client can be running on a different machine than the server, it
- doesn't make sense for SIGURG to be sent by pressing the stop key anymore.
- This is explained in the XView 3.0 Reference Manual: Converting SunView Applications.
-
- >Well, under xview we can't get SIGURG anymore, so what do we do? I cannot
- >seem to get anything to work. I thought I could call notify_dispatch() and
-
- If you drop out of the notifier (call notify_stop()), you should be able to do this.
- Almost all the programs I work on these days pop up a window with a progress meter
- and cancel button when they do something that takes a long time. The notify proc
- for the cancel button just sets a flag which is checked every once in a while.
-
- -Jonathan hue@island.COM
-