Re: Modal and transient

[Paul Davis <pbd op net>]

>I have a application with a main widget and the user can open a lot of
>top level widgets. Is it possible to make a message widget transient for
>all widget in the application or for the desktop. In motif I can set a
>widget application modal or system modal. Now I found only the
>possibility to make the message widget transient for one widget.

system modal can't be done reliably. actually, even application modal
can't either, but it works more often. you have to rely on the whims
of the window manager and the user's WM configuration.

the best i could suggest is to grab the pointer and keyboard, request
that the window be raised a long distance on the stack, and leave it
at that.

--p