Re: Full modal dialog

[Christoph Simon <datageo terra com br>]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 14:29:05 +0100 (CET)
G Hasse <gh raditex se> wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Christoph Simon wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > Is there a way to create a full modal dialog? I'm doing a system critical action
> > and need an answer from the user before he is able to do anything. So before
> > clicking on a button, he should not be able to do anything else, not even
> > in another application.
>
> This you should not do. What if a window is beeing displayed from another
> system that needs urgent attention?
>
> Note that in X-windows is used for multisystem access! This is not like
> MS-Windows at all.

Well, this is a very urgent message, and there can be no `more urgent'
message from another place; BTW this message does come from another
computer.


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Christoph Simon
datageo terra com br
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