"working" dialog, and do some computing, but the dialog window appears blank until the work has finished. How can I force it to be displayed? Answer: Use this. (David Brooks, Systems Engineering, Open Software Foundation) /* * This procedure will ensure that, if a dialog window is being mapped, * its contents become visible before returning. It is intended to be * used just before a bout of computing that doesn't service the display. * You should still call XmUpdateDisplay() at intervals during this * computing if possible. * * The monitoring of window states is necessary because attempts to map * the dialog are redirected to the window manager (if there is one) and * this introduces a significant delay before the window is actually mapped * and exposed. This code works under mwm, twm, uwm, and no-wm. It * doesn't work (but doesn't hang) with olwm if the mainwindow is iconified. * * The argument to ForceDialog is any widget in the dialog (often it * will be the BulletinBoard child of a DialogShell). */ ForceDialog(w) Widget w; { Widget diashell, topshell; Window diawindow, topwindow; Display *dpy; XWindowAttributes xwa; XEvent event; XtAppContext cxt; /* Locate the shell we are interested in. In a particular instance, you * may know these shells already. */ for (diashell = w; !XtIsShell(diashell); diashell = XtParent(diashell)) ; /* Locate its primary window's shell (which may be the same) */ for (topshell = diashell; !XtIsTopLevelShell(topshell); topshell = XtParent(topshell)) ; if (XtIsRealized(diashell) && XtIsRealized(topshell)) { dpy = XtDisplay(topshell); diawindow = XtWindow(diashell); topwindow = XtWindow(topshell); cxt = XtWidgetToApplicationContext(diashell); /* Wait for the dialog to be mapped. It's guaranteed to become so unless... */ while (XGetWindowAttributes(dpy, diawindow, &xwa), xwa.map_state != IsViewable) { /* ...if the primary is (or becomes) unviewable or unmapped, it's probably iconified, and nothing will happen. */ if (XGetWindowAttributes(dpy, topwindow, &xwa), xwa.map_state != IsViewable) break; /* At this stage, we are guaranteed there will be an event of some kind. Beware; we are presumably in a callback, so this can recurse. */ XtAppNextEvent(cxt, &event); XtDispatchEvent(&event); } } /* The next XSync() will get an expose event if the dialog was unmapped. */ XmUpdateDisplay(topshell); }Go Back Up